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by sandstrom 3811 days ago
Yes, at least an edge location (for CloudFront CDN etc) in Africa would be useful.
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discodave 3811 days ago
Given that the team who originally built EC2 are based in Cape Town, it seems crazy that there is zero AWS presence in Africa.
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globalgoat 3811 days ago
the closest to anything really mainstream I'm aware of currently is CloudFare in Kenya. When I saw this last year it gave me some hope that the bigger players may start to look at Africa seriously in the near future. https://blog.cloudflare.com/mombasa-kenya-cloudflares-43rd-d...
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