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The twin data centers will be Microsoft’s first in Africa. The company is following Huawei who made its cloud service available in Johannesburg last week.
Unusually, Microsoft appears to be ahead of Amazon Web Services (AWS), which doesn’t plan to open data centers in South Africa until 2020.
Better late than never
The company had previously promised that the data centers would be online by the end of 2018, but Microsoft failed to live up to this goal and has not given a reason for the tardy opening.