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Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational , come a year after the technical school giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa .
Cloud regions allow drug user to deploy cloud resources from specific geographical locations or closer to customers , and gives them entree to several services include swarm storage , compute locomotive and key direction systems .
Google says the Johannesburg region will play an important role in providing the resources that businesses “ want to scale , innovate and compete in the global marketplace . ”
Google picks South Africa for its first swarm region in Africa
Today ’s declaration follows the 2022 declaration where Google also confirm building Dedicated Cloud complect sites , which link user ’ on - premise web with Google ’s grid , in Nairobi ( Kenya ) , Lagos ( Nigeria ) and South Africa ( Capetown and Johannesburg ) , to supply full - scale cloud capability for its client and partner in Africa . It said it would tap its now completed private subsea cable , Equiano , which connects Africa and Europe to power the sites .
“ Like all Google Cloud region , the Johannesburg neighborhood is connected to Google ’s secure web , comprising a system of high - capacity fiber optic cable under land and ocean around the world . This include the of late - completed Equiano subsea cable system that connects Portugal with Togo , Nigeria , Namibia , South Africa , and St. Helena , ” Google Cloud Africa managing director , Niral Patelsaidin a program line today .
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According to AlphaBeta Economics enquiry , commission by Google Cloud , the South Africa swarm region is expect to contribute over $ 2.1 billion to South Africa ’s GDP , and substantiate the creation of more than 40,000 problem by 2030 .
Besides , Patel say in 2022 , the swarm region would allow its customer and mate to choose where to store their data , and regions to access its cloud services , specially in the context of use of information sovereignty .
The power for users to choose where to stack away their data is increasingly critical as commonwealth likeKenya follow up concealment and data lawsthat command companies to store and process information collected within their border using topically hosted servers .
Google , which now has a global web of 40 swarm regions and 106 zones worldwide , joins Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) , Microsoft Azure and Oracle amongst others with cloud region in South Africa .
