In April 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS has a long history in South Africa, and numerous public sector organisations in the region are already spearheading technological innovations in the cloud.

AWS first established its presence in South Africa in Cape Town in 2004. AWS built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), in the region.

The recent launch of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region is a continuation of investment to support the growth of Sub-Saharan Africa. The new infrastructure region brings advanced and secure cloud technologies that open up opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the public sector.

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