An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by tnolet » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 7:56 AM UTC

An AWS Region is coming to South Africa
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Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

#2

Post by tnolet » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 7:59 AM UTC

This is great news. I've had multiple customers request DC locations in South Africa for my monitoring service https://checklyhq.com. Also in general a nice boost for the underserved ZA Saas market.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by lgleason » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:28 AM UTC

I feel bad for all of the local providers down there such as Afrihost, CloudAfrica etc.. Big companies pushing out the little guys sadly...

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by grandinj » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:35 AM UTC

Yay, finally decent latencies to/from SA customers when deploying AWS stuff

The latency down here is a killer, often 300ms+ to EU/US, and for chatty web apps, a real pain.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by okal » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:38 AM UTC

lgleason wrote: post #3

I feel bad for all of the local providers down there such as Afrihost, CloudAfrica etc.. Big companies pushing out the little guys sadly...

Also possible that it'll just mean companies moving from eu-west to this new AZ...

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by laichzeit0 » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:51 AM UTC

But only in 2020...

Isn't Azure supposed to be up this year?

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by tnolet » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 9:59 AM UTC

laichzeit0 wrote: post #6

But only in 2020... Isn't Azure supposed to be up this year?

yeah, it's on their regions map https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/regi...

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by boet » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

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Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by andkenneth » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 10:06 AM UTC

Probably not at the top of everyones mind, but this will be great for gamers in SA. Lots of games-as-a-service (i.e. no dedicated server software you can run yourself) are hosted on AWS. Overwatch is a particular example that might now receive African servers off of this.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

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Post by tnolet » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 10:11 AM UTC

lgleason wrote: post #3

I feel bad for all of the local providers down there such as Afrihost, CloudAfrica etc.. Big companies pushing out the little guys sadly...

Yeah, well, it's not as if they couldn't see the total and utter consolidation of cloud and hosting infra coming a mile away. The question was never "if", just "when". Should not be a shock to the local players.