Man, Africa looks really sad. I was looking through their region list (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html) and everything is in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Africa's nowhere to be found.
Africa's nowhere to be found.
Anyway, AWS in South Africa isn't worth it if routes to nearby countries go through London anyway (like it's currently the case).
I think we[1] are going to open Montreal this quarter[2]. Not much help if you need EC2 style services, but if you just need to store some data in Canada ... you'll have an option. Drive-up service too.[3]
[1] rsync.net. HN-readers discount. Email.
[2] with he.net bandwidth @ 10gb/s
It's ironic, as some of the AWS dev work was done there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#H...
The problem with an AWS region in Africa is, in my view, that there's not a large market to support the idea. South Korea is for sure more interesting.