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Have to wonder how much of the push for more EU AWS regions comes from dealing with a potential exodus from the London region due Brexit (e.g. because of data protection issues)
When will Africa get a region? Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
Which is kind of strange, since they weren't afraid to invest in China or Iraq.
On top of this, funnily enough, the Chinese aren't afraid and by the time the US companies get going...
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Why would they need to be close to 'a large pool of talent' in order to run a bunch of hosting? It doesn't take that many people to run a hosting facility, the ones I'm familiar with are mostly deserted. They take people to set up and a large amount of capital but once that's done it takes very few people to run. Even the (very large) Google data centers typically do not employ more than 100 people, that's 30 people…
>Why would they need to be close to 'a large pool of talent' in order to run a bunch of hosting? They don't. There will be a handful of English speaking data center operators, but that's it.
When will Africa get a region? Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
At this point it seems that big US companies are too afraid to invest in Africa. Which is kind of strange, since they weren't afraid to invest in China or Iraq. On top of this, funnily enough, the Chinese aren't afraid and by the time the US companies get going...
When will Africa get a region? Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-cent...
"Franco Austin, former Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services:
'Whilst South Africa only have a single energy provider, no. So the answer would be probably not soon, unless AWS plan to build their own energy provider, the requirements for a DC for AWS is that it has got 2 independent electricity providers on different grids. Thus I doubt if South Africa will see an AWS data center and I love to be proven wrong, at this stage I believe the best we can hope for in South Africa is a pop or edge location.'"
When will Africa get a region? Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
Where would you propose hosting it in Africa? I understand that the consumer internet situation is not very good over there, are there datacenters and strong fiber links to USA and Europe? This is essentially why my company doesn't target African markets, because our software requires a persistent internet connection.
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Where would you propose hosting it in Africa? I understand that the consumer internet situation is not very good over there, are there datacenters and strong fiber links to USA and Europe? This is essentially why my company doesn't target African markets, because our software requires a persistent internet connection.
Dubai. Yes, not actually in Africa, but much closer to the area and relatively stable. Also, there's plenty of activity going on in the Middle East that would justify this (I think).
When will Africa get a region? Seriously, we have companies willing to pay big money to use a region closer to us.
Where would you propose hosting it in Africa? I understand that the consumer internet situation is not very good over there, are there datacenters and strong fiber links to USA and Europe? This is essentially why my company doesn't target African markets, because our software requires a persistent internet connection.
http://www.eassy.org/network_overview.html
There's DC facilities there as well:
http://telecoms.com/180712/east-africa-opens-monster-datacen...