AWS Africa
Thousands of active customers, from Absa, Investec, Old Mutual, Pick n Pay, University of Pretoria and Standard Bank use AWS to deliver flexibility, scalability and reliability.
What's new
AWS re/Start
AWS re/Start is a skills development and job training program that prepares unemployed individuals for careers in the cloud. The program’s mission is to build diverse local talent by providing a pathway to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and connecting graduates with job opportunities. In October 2020, AWS re/Start launched a cohort in South Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana.
B-BBEE Certificate
Amazon Web Services South Africa has achieved B-BBEE Level 1 Contributor Status for the sixth consecutive year. Achieving B-BBEE Level 1 status demonstrates our continued commitment, and long-term investment in South Africa.
The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region is now open
Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users with even lower latency, from data centers located in Africa, as well as leverage advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation.
To see a complete list of AWS services available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region please visit the AWS Region Table. Pricing for the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region is available on the detail page for each respective AWS service.
Events & Webinars
AWS holds events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn from AWS experts.
Customer Success Stories
Zailab is a cloud-based contact center platform to simplify the complex process of setting up and managing contact centers. To support its performance, Zailab chose to go all-in on AWS.
Gap Draught uses AWS for a more reliable, scalable infrastructure that makes it easier to grow internationally. The company provides technology that helps bars manage stock better and bill more of what they pour. Its sensors in customers’ beer lines send data to Amazon EC2 instances for processing.
Absa uses AWS to help deliver it's aims to which by 2020, had launched more than 100 initiatives on the AWS Cloud.
Khwela used AWS to develop and launch its new mobile taxi app, giving thousands of South African commuters a better experience with the use of AWS Activate, growing the company 80 percent since launch.
TymeBank, the first bank in South Africa to receive a full banking license in almost 20 years, migrated 85 percent of its infrastructure to AWS using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
OneFi provides loans to customers throughout Africa. To support its growth plans and compliance requirements, OneFi chose to go all-in on AWS.
JUMO chooses AWS to enable faster, more cost-effective access to digital financial services.
Customer Testimonials
NewGlobe (best known for its well known Bridge community school programmes) provides bespoke lesson guides, based on national curriculums, for hundreds of thousands of teachers in transformation programmes across Africa and Asia. Every day, the social enterprise reaches 1,000,000 nursery and primary school children living in extreme poverty. It's technology platform is designed to work in low infrastructure environments and makes previously opaque classrooms and school systems, transparent and accountable. The organization has hosted most of its digital services on AWS since 2014, when it started to scale at speed, supporting a growing number of teachers and serving more and more students each year. NewGlobe stores all of its teacher lesson guides, teacher identification information, pupil records, and student test results in Amazon S3 where the files are easily accessed by the academic team, who regularly analyze how children are performing in order to further improve learning outcomes. In 2018, NewGlobe adopted a serverless architecture to reduce infrastructure costs and keep costs low for its government partners and parent customers.
"By using AWS, we have increased the speed and reliability of our technology platform, which allows us to move more quickly to support new opportunities and grow seamlessly,” said Kent McNeil, CTO at NewGlobe. “It also allows us to focus our time and energy on helping children learn, rather than on managing and maintaining infrastructure.”
AWS Partners
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for AWS. It is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.
Consulting Partners
APN Partners that help customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS.
Technology Partners
APN Partners that provide software solutions that are either hosted on, or integrated with, the AWS platform.
Training Partners
APN Training Partners have access to authorized AWS Training courseware, resources, and lab environments.
Contact Us
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B-BBEE Certificate
Amazon Web Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd (AWS ZA), has attained Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Level 1 status. AWS ZA’s other initiatives, contributing to its Level 1 status, include funding for small business, the Amazon Web Services Equity Equivalent Investment Program (AWS EEIP), and skills development programs delivered through AWS Academy and AWS Educate.
AWS Africa Startup Blog
Find out how AWS startups in Africa are solving emerging market challenges.
Join AWS User Groups
AWS User Groups are independent platforms where users connect to discuss ideas and learn about new AWS products. If you are a passionate AWS user and are interested in joining an AWS User Group, see the list of existing groups below or create your own.
User Groups in Africa:
JUMO chooses AWS to enable faster, more cost-effective access to digital financial services.
Custos Media Technologies scales globally with AWS.
Based in Nigeria, OneFi provides loans to customers throughout Africa. To support its growth plans and compliance requirements, OneFi chose to go all-in on AWS.
Aella Credit uses AWS to improve identity verification and grow its business.
