{"id":268071,"date":"2018-07-12T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=268071"},"modified":"2018-07-12T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:11:52","slug":"amazon-launches-cloudfront-edge-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/268071-amazon-launches-cloudfront-edge-in-cape-town.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches CloudFront Edge in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CloudFront has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudfront\/whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> four new Edge locations across four cities, including Cape Town in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Edge location in Cape Town is the second in the country, with the first launched in Johannesburg <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/264609-amazon-cloudfront-gets-pop-in-johannesburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>last month<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rollout of the Edge locations will improve the availability and performance of content delivery to users in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch of the new Edge servers in South Africa, Amazon said that customers delivering content in South Africa are seeing up to 75% latency improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Africa still remains the continent with the fewest number of Edge locations which Amazon delivers cloud services to, and it is the only continent without Regional Edge Caches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/267863-amazon-web-services-courses-offered-through-south-african-universities-the-details.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon Web Services courses offered through South African universities \u2013 The details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CloudFront has announced four new Edge locations across four cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":237488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51639,3616,52373,20769,47144],"class_list":["post-268071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon-cloudfront","tag-cape-town","tag-edge-location","tag-johannesburg","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268075,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071\/revisions\/268075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}