Amazon brings jobs and hi-tech skills to SA
Staff sought for company’s new Cape Town data centres
Jeff Bezos's Amazon.com is on the hunt for talent in SA as it prepares to open its first African data centres in Cape Town. During a visit to the country this week, the corporation's vice-president and chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, outlined big plans for the expansion of jobs, educational initiatives and technology roll-out in SA. The thrust into Africa will be spearheaded by the company's cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has had a development centre in Cape Town since 2004. AWS sets up its data centres in clusters, which it calls infrastructure regions, of which it now has 19 worldwide. The three data centres in Cape Town will comprise a new AWS region. These, says Vogels, will drive innovation, speed up digital transformation and increase digital competitiveness across the continent. "The new AWS region means more than just the arrival of advanced, secure computing hardware and services," he told Business Times. "It will also bring with it highly sk...
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