Amazon CloudFront announces four new Edge locations, including its first location in Cape Town, South Africa
Details: Amazon CloudFront announces four new Edge locations: Cape Town, South Africa; Denver, Colorado; Frankfurt, Germany; and Taipei, Taiwan. Cape Town is our second Edge location in South Africa, the first being Johannesburg, launched in June 2018. Customers delivering content in South Africa are already seeing up to 75% latency improvements on average. The addition of a new Edge location in Denver, Colorado doubles our capacity in Denver. The new Edge location in Frankfurt is the seventh in the city, while the new Edge location in Taipei is the third in the city. The addition of these locations continues to expand CloudFront's global footprint and capacity, allowing us to deliver better performance and scale for our customers.
A full list of CloudFront’s global infrastructure can be seen on the CloudFront Details webpage.