First MEA Datacenter in South Africa is Now Open

On 6 March, Microsoft announced the opening of the first datacenters in Africa and its availability to customers.

Here you are Microsoft statement about this new and excellent step:

“with the general availability of Microsoft Azure from new cloud regions in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This investment will drive significant growth, in line with both the continent’s digital transformation objectives and the realisation of new economic opportunities. The launch also makes Microsoft the first global provider to deliver cloud services from datacentres on the continent, with these two new regions joining the 54 available and announced regions worldwide, more than any other cloud provider.

Azure is the first of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud services to be available from the new Microsoft cloud datacentres in Africa and will be followed in the future by Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity solution, Office 365, and Dynamics 365, the next generation of intelligent business applications.”