AWS to Invest Over a Billion Dollars to Boost Cloud, AI in Africa
By Nixon Kanali
As Amazon Web Services (AWS), headquartered in the US, celebrates its 20th anniversary in Africa, the business underlined its commitment to extending its Cloud and Artificial Intelligence services in the region, with an additional $1.7 billion investment budget slated to be deployed by 2029.
Speaking at the AWS Summit 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Chris Erasmus, AWS country general manager for South Africa, said: “The AWS community in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is thriving; we have thousands of AWS customers in SSA today, and we see this as an incredibly strategic area of growth for us.”
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