Vodacom, a purpose-led African connectivity, digital and financial services company, has launched Africa’s first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Innovation Lab in collaboration with AWS and Intel. The laboratory will focus on accelerating technology innovations across different industries, delivering faster scalability, and creating the opportunity to use infrastructure and technologies to solve business challenges.
In addition, the laboratory, located in Johannesburg, will serve as a Proof of Concept (POC) setup for customers to test their applications and environment for performance on AWS Outposts. Intel-powered AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that is designed to provide AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location.
Kabelo Makwane, Managing Executive for Cloud, Hosting and Security, Vodacom Business, said: “We are extremely proud to collaborate with AWS in rolling out AWS Outposts on the continent. This is testament to the AWS managed cloud professional services capability Vodacom Business has amassed over the last few years, together with our world class tier certified data centres that meet AWS’ high global standards. This offering represents a great opportunity to meet our customers’ demands for AWS hybrid cloud on and off-premises—often a barrier to cloud adoption in more regulated industries where privacy and control of sensitive data and information are important considerations.”
Vinod Krishnan, Partner Development Lead for Europe Emerging Markets, AWS, said: “While customers are increasingly looking to leverage cloud technologies for faster innovation, some workloads need to remain on-premises where data residency is paramount or where every millisecond counts. Our customers across various industries such as financial services, healthcare and life science, gaming, media and entertainment, mining, manufacturing, retail and logistics, and public sector have been using Intel-powered AWS Outposts for their on-premises workloads. With AWS Outposts, customers can write their applications once and deploy them anywhere using the same AWS infrastructure, services, and APIs. We’re delighted that the AWS Outposts Innovation Lab at Vodacom allows for our joint customers to see a truly consistent hybrid experience in action and gives them confidence in migrating to AWS Outposts for deployments at a larger scale. We look forward to working with Vodacom and Intel to help our joint customers accelerate cloud adoption and business innovations.”
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