In Nigeria, the Amazon Web Services Outposts rack is now accessible.
Hey, AWS Cloud Security enthusiasts! There is good news for you. AWS has made the opening of AWS Outposts in Nigeria official. Customers can run AWS services on-premises, including compute, storage, and databases, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’s wide range of services in the cloud thanks to the fully managed and programmable compute and storage racks created with hardware designed by AWS.
Datacenters, colocation facilities, and on-premises facilities can now use AWS infrastructure and operating models. Customers can deliver a consistent experience by using the same APIs, control plane, tools, and hardware on-premises as in the AWS Regions thanks to AWS Outposts rack.
Amrote Abdella, General Manager at AWS, Sub-Saharan Africa, stated, “We are excited to bring AWS Outposts to rack to Nigeria as we continue to deliver advanced cloud services to meet AWS customers’ business needs. Customers in Nigeria who have workloads that require low latency, data processing, or data storage on-premises can benefit from AWS Outposts.
These workloads include applications that might need to generate near real-time responses, communicate with other on-premises systems, or control on-site equipment, such as factory floor equipment, health management systems, and retail point-of-sale systems. Customers can also use AWS Outposts rack to securely store and use customer data in Nigeria, which is important for organizations in highly regulated industries and data sovereignty requirements.”
One of Nigeria’s quickest-growing startups, Paystack, uses AWS services to create robust B2B payment and growth tools for thousands of the continent’s most ambitious companies.
“AWS’ reliability has enabled us to seamlessly scale our operations and exponentially grow transaction volumes. We are excited by the launch of AWS Outposts rack in Nigeria which brings cloud-scale innovations and services to Nigeria’s tech ecosystem,” said Ezra Olubi, Paystack Co-founder and CTO.
The Genomics Infrastructure & Insights Ecosystem (GENIISYSTM) platform from 54Gene, a health technology company, was built on AWS, allowing them to gather and examine various datasets to make scientific discoveries.
“Using AWS, we have been able to deploy new digital services faster than it would have taken us previously. Continuous innovation is part of 54Gene’s DNA. The launch of the AWS Outposts rack in Nigeria allows us to extend and run AWS services on-premises. We are thrilled with this, said Francis Osifo, vice president of 54Gene.”
Customers can build and run applications using the same programming interfaces as in AWS Regions with the AWS Outposts rack. Customers using AWS Outposts can select from a variety of graphics-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, both with and without local storage options, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume options, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) on Outposts. Then, customers can run a variety of AWS services locally, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon EMR, as well as connect directly to regional services like Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon DynamoDB through public or private connections.
This is great news and will help increase AWS Cloud's presence in Nigeria being the Country with the largest market size in West Africa.
