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Of the big public cloud providers, Microsoft came to Africa first. As far as I know, GCP doesn’t have anything on the roadmap for Africa.

koalalorenzo 7y ago
I don't think they are playing the game of "Who is first attacking a market". I bet some Azure clients are happy to move to AWS if they were forced to use Azure due to being the only one. I bet also the other way around.
manojlds 7y ago
South Africa has a huge .NET market.
- jen20 7y ago
  My speculation is that Azure was in ZA first though because of Office 365 however!
x86_64Ubuntu 7y ago
Why would GCP expand when they are looking to kill the product offering?
- ernsheong 7y ago
  There is a lot of snark surrounding GCP. I'll just leave this here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-google-cloud-regions-for-2020 https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-goog... This year alone GCP will launch new regions in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).
- karambahh 7y ago
  Can you elaborate on this? I've never heard before that they are trying to kill GCP?
  - sah2ed 7y ago
    Perhaps they are basing it on this [1] ultimatum supposedly issued by GCP’s top brass to best the top 2 cloud providers by a certain date. It was widely discussed on HN some months ago. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
    - res0nat0r 7y ago
      Yeah that conversation was pretty silly and more HN echo chamber because folks are mad that Google Reader was shutdown. Below is what I commented a few months ago re: this topic. > Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone. > https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/ https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/ > https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i.. https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i....
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- m10i 7y ago
  Could you elaborate on this/provide a source?

koalalorenzo 7y ago

I don't think they are playing the game of "Who is first attacking a market". I bet some Azure clients are happy to move to AWS if they were forced to use Azure due to being the only one. I bet also the other way around.

manojlds 7y ago

South Africa has a huge .NET market.

jen20 7y ago
My speculation is that Azure was in ZA first though because of Office 365 however!

x86_64Ubuntu 7y ago

Why would GCP expand when they are looking to kill the product offering?

ernsheong 7y ago
There is a lot of snark surrounding GCP. I'll just leave this here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-google-cloud-regions-for-2020 https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-goog... This year alone GCP will launch new regions in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).
karambahh 7y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I've never heard before that they are trying to kill GCP?
- sah2ed 7y ago
  Perhaps they are basing it on this [1] ultimatum supposedly issued by GCP’s top brass to best the top 2 cloud providers by a certain date. It was widely discussed on HN some months ago. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
  - res0nat0r 7y ago
    Yeah that conversation was pretty silly and more HN echo chamber because folks are mad that Google Reader was shutdown. Below is what I commented a few months ago re: this topic. > Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone. > https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/ https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/ > https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i.. https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i....
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m10i 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this/provide a source?