The launch of a cloud region in South Africa is the first of its kind on the African continent, and it is catching up to other top providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.
In its quest to provide full-scale cloud capabilities for its customers and partners, the company is building Dedicated Cloud Interconnect sites, which link users' on-premises networks with the company's grid, in five African countries.
The Equiano cable is a private cable that connects Africa and Europe. Since the beginning of the year, Equiano has made four landings in Africa.
South Africa is the latest country to join the global network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones. Cloud resources can be deployed from specific geographic locations and users can access a number of services.
The first Google Cloud region in Africa is going to be announced soon. The new region will allow for the translation of services. It will make it easier for our customers and partners to quickly deploy solutions for their businesses, whereby they're able to leverage our computer artificial intelligence or machine learning capabilities.
He said that the new region and interconnect sites will allow its customers to choose where to consume its products.
Customers and partners have a choice of where they want to store their data and where they want to consume cloud services. It gives customers the option of storing the data in the country they want.
The ability for users to choose where they store their data is becoming more important as countries like Kenya implement privacy and data laws which require companies to store their data within borders and process it through server hosted locally.
The decision to establish a region in South Africa was influenced by the demand for cloud services. As demand for its products increases, the company is looking to launch in more markets in Africa. Large enterprise companies, as well as e-commerce firms like South Africa's TakeAlot, are earlyadopters.
As we work with our customers to transform and grow in these markets, we evaluate market demands. It's on that basis that we continue to invest.
The South Africa cloud region will contribute over $2 billion to South Africa's GDP and support the creation of more than 40,000 jobs by the year 2030.
According to data fromGartner, the three biggest public cloud storage players in the world are:
There are two cloud regions in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in Johannesburg, but neither of them has any plans to open a data center in Africa.
In 2020 Amazon opened a data center in Cape Town. The data center in South Africa was established by Oracle. In response to whether or not Google is playing catch up with the other cloud storage players, the managing director of the company in Africa said that every major player is concerned about broadening the internet in Africa through their data centers rather than vying for a more significant market share
The job to be done is to bring more people and businesses online, how do we help more entrepreneurs get access to capital and so on. This is less of a market share zero-sum game, but more of how do we work collectively across the private sector, public sector, civil society, to just build a large, vibrant internet ecosystems that helps broaden economies and businesses, as well as generate jobs.
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