- AWS and Orange Business signed a global strategic partnership to offer a one-stop shop responding to the client transformation needs earlier this year. Orange Business is able to offer context-specific solutions simply and quickly by providing high-end quality services to the clients.
- AWS infrastructure can makes regulated industries in Morocco and Senegal to deploy and run applications locally, addressing data residency, low latency, and security requirements.
- Nowadays, Africa’s authorities, financial services and healthcare industries are taking use of cloud computing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Orange Business(Orange) partner to bring cloud computing to Morocco and Senegal through the AWS Wavelength platform, marking the first such deployment in a country without physical AWS infrastructure.
AWS expands reach with Orange partnership
AWS and Orange signed a global strategic partnership to offer a one-stop shop responding to the client transformation needs earlier this year. Orange Business is able to offer context-specific solutions simply and quickly by providing high-end quality services to the clients.
The collaboration of Amazon’s AWS and Orange which provides cloud computing services in Morocco and Senegal, leverage Orange’s data centres for the initiative to meet the growing demand for faster computing across various industries concerning cloud migration, data, machine learning and cybersecurity. AWS infrastructure can makes regulated industries in Morocco and Senegal to deploy and run applications locally, addressing data residency, low latency, and security requirements.
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Growing cloud market in Africa
Nowadays, Africa’s authorities, financial services and healthcare industries are taking use of cloud computing. In the coming years, with the proliferation of the Internet and the adoption of technologies such as big data, IoT, and AI, investment in cloud data centres will continue to grow steadily, driving the digital transformation of the African market. The cloud market in Africa is projected to achieve an annual growth rate of 15% and reach $18 billion by 2028, fueled by increasing data consumption and the need for secure local data hosting.
The African Data Centre Association (ADCA) has noted that while 85 companies from 54 countries in Africa currently occupy the African data centre market on a continent with a population of 1.3 billion, there is still much room for growth.
Kenya’s emerging data centre operator, IXAfrica, announced significant investments in Kenya’s digital economy in March 2021; IBM is the first major cloud service provider to build a data centre infrastructure in Africa; Microsoft also set up its first data centres in South Africa in 2017.
