No idea if any of this is true today, but here's what a quick google search found: https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-center-EC2-in-South-

No idea if any of this is true today, but here's what a quick google search found: https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-center-EC2-in-South-Africa-any-time-soon https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-cent... "Franco Austin, former Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services: 'Whilst South Africa only have a single energy provider, no. So the answer would be probably not soon, unless AWS plan to build their own energy provider, the requirements for a DC for AWS is that it has got 2 independent electricity providers on different grids. Thus I doubt if South Africa will see an AWS data center and I love to be proven wrong, at this stage I believe the best we can hope for in South Africa is a pop or edge location.'"