Microsoft opens first African data centers
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Microsoft has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to provide South Africa with faster access to Azure Cloud. The new data centers will be it’s first in the region following Huawei who recently made its cloud service available in Johannesburg. This also marks one of the first times that Microsoft is ahead of AWS which doesn't plan to open its own data centers in South Africa until 2020.