AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
News - Africa, AWS
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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US's Export-Import Bank approves more than $100m in financing guarantees for digitalization in Côte d'Ivoire
Will facilitate construction of data center
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AWS launches Wavelength Zone Edge location in Senegal with Orange
Cloud company’s second Wavelength site in Africa
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Gold mining company Gold Fields moves to AWS
Miner has migrated SAP and treasury systems to AWS
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AWS launching Wavelength Zone Edge locations in Morocco and Senegal with Orange
As Oracle confirms plans for two Moroccan cloud regions
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Old Mutual closes data centers and moves to AWS
African financial services group migrates to the cloud
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AWS launches Local Zone Edge locations in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro
Three more international Local Zones launched; takes total to 15
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Google plans first African cloud region as part of $1bn African pledge
It follows recent investment in its Equiano subsea cable
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AWS’ 10MW South African solar farm comes online
Sola Group-operated facility is cloud copmany’s first renewables project in SA
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Teraco breaks ground on 38MW Johannesburg data center
The largest data center in Africa
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AWS launches South African region
Cape Town is the cloud leader's first African region
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Africa DC buys Standard Bank's Johannesburg data center
And plans to expand the site further
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AWS to open South African cloud data centers in 2020
The company's first in Africa
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Ryanair to close own data centers, move infrastructure to AWS
CTO says the move will allow the company to “transform” its customers’ travel experiences
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Facebook plans third data center in Luleå, Sweden
The million square foot campus is set for launch in 2021
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SAP opens Saudi Arabia's first public cloud data center
As part of its four-year $76m investment plan
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Legal challenge threatens Amazon’s latest Dublin data center plans
A complainant has questioned the thoroughness of the planning board’s preliminary impact assessment
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AWS to open Middle East data centers by early 2019
Three zones in Bahrain at launch
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Rackspace opens Frankfurt data center
Cloud experts move into Germany
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AWS is considering data centers in South Africa
No details yet – but the company is watching the market with interest
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Interxion launches Cloud Connect from Marseille campus
Marseille will be the 12th out of 13 of the company’s European locations providing the service
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AWS starts offering cloud services hosted in London
Welcome news for more than 100,000 UK customers
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AWS is set to open a new cloud region in France
Aims to offer lower latency, compliance with regulations
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Deutsche Bank: US federal government cloud is gaining steam
$89 billion investment anticipated in a single fiscal year
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Datum adds direct connect to Azure and AWS
UK-based colo adds hybrid cloud support