The region is named “Africa (Cape Town)” with the label “af-south-1”.<\/p>\n
AWS told MyBroadband that the arrival of its infrastructure in South Africa would assist a range of organisations. It would also help developers start businesses and build new products and services.<\/p>\n
Microsoft Azure<\/h3>\n
Microsoft launched its South African Azure region in March 2019.<\/p>\n
The company recently launched Azure Availability Zones<\/a><\/strong> in its South Africa North region.<\/p>\n Microsft said this would bring higher availability and asynchronous replication across Azure regions for recovery protection.<\/p>\n Oracle’s Johannesburg region went live<\/a><\/strong> in January 2022. It is the cloud computing provider’s first region on the continent.<\/p>\n The company initially announced its intentions to launch 20 new cloud data centres<\/a><\/strong>, including one in South Africa, by the end of 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed its plans.<\/p>\n Oracle said the new facilities would make it easier for businesses in the region to improve performance and protect data.<\/p>\n Huawei began offering its commercial cloud services in South Africa in March 2019 when it launched its Johannesburg data centre<\/a><\/strong>. It aims to help African governments, carriers, and organisations across various industries.<\/p>\n The company said South Africa was one of the most diverse and promising emerging markets globally.<\/p>\n It plans to launch another data centre in Cape Town and has hinted at launching an availability zone in Durban.<\/p>\n Acronis unveiled its Cyber Cloud Data Centre in Johannesburg<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 one of the 111 currently being deployed by the company \u2014 in late January 2022.<\/p>\n The data centre in Johannesburg will provide local organisations with a location within South Africa to store critical business and client data.<\/p>\n “A local presence is a necessity for modern cloud businesses,” the company said when it launched.<\/p>\n Along with various global cloud computing players launching availability zones in South Africa, data centre infrastructure providers have been investing billions into their local facilities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Vantage Data Centres announced in October 2021 that it had begun construction on its Waterfall data centre<\/a><\/strong>. The first phase is expected to come online in the last quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n Africa Data Centres is investing R7.2 billion<\/a><\/strong> in data centres throughout Africa, including one in South Africa.<\/p>\n Teraco Data Environments announced in October 2021 that it had completed the first phase of its new data centre<\/a><\/strong> in Brackenfell, Cape Town.<\/p>\n Open Access Data Centres (OADC) revealed that it had deployed its first open-access edge data centre in South Africa<\/a><\/strong> in early May 2022.<\/p>\n OADC said the facility would support 5G rollouts, network extensions, and the internet service provider and fibre network operator infrastructure in new areas.<\/p>\n The company also promised that the facility would contribute to improved latency and improve end-user experiences.<\/p>\n The cloud computing space in South Africa has grown significantly over the past three years, with major players like Amazon and Microsoft having established their services in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":441340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[30594,35,1982,24957,78262,3372,441],"class_list":["post-445874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-headline","tag-huawei","tag-microsoft-azure","tag-open-access-data-centres-oadc","tag-oracle","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445874"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445964,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445874\/revisions\/445964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Oracle<\/h3>\n
Huawei<\/h3>\n
Acronis<\/h3>\n
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