Africa (Cape Town)

Africa (Cape Town) is a cloud region operated by AWS in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the region you select when you want compute, storage and managed services served from infrastructure physically located in or near Cape Town.

The region comprises 3 Availability Zones, each a separate physical facility with independent power, cooling and network paths. Workloads distributed across multiple AZs in the same region survive single-facility failures with millisecond-scale failover latency.

The region has been operational since 2020 (6 years).

If you need multi-cloud workloads in Cape Town, the providers listed below also operate a region here.

• AZURE · South Africa West southafricawest