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Of the big public cloud providers, Microsoft came to Africa first.

As far as I know, GCP doesn’t have anything on the roadmap for Africa.

I don't think they are playing the game of "Who is first attacking a market". I bet some Azure clients are happy to move to AWS if they were forced to use Azure due to being the only one. I bet also the other way around.

South Africa has a huge .NET market.

My speculation is that Azure was in ZA first though because of Office 365 however!

Why would GCP expand when they are looking to kill the product offering?

Can you elaborate on this?

I've never heard before that they are trying to kill GCP?

Perhaps they are basing it on this [1] ultimatum supposedly issued by GCP’s top brass to best the top 2 cloud providers by a certain date. It was widely discussed on HN some months ago.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260

Yeah that conversation was pretty silly and more HN echo chamber because folks are mad that Google Reader was shutdown. Below is what I commented a few months ago re: this topic.

> Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.

> https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/

> https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i....

Could you elaborate on this/provide a source?

There is a lot of snark surrounding GCP. I'll just leave this here:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-goog...

This year alone GCP will launch new regions in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).

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