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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

Fast forward to 2018, when AWS announced plans to launch data center infrastructure in the country. billion more in its South African cloud infrastructure by 2029. According to the EIS, AWS operations will add an estimated ZAR 68 billion more to South Africa’s GDP by 2029. Since then, AWS has invested ZAR 15.6

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