AWS Launches First Wavelength Zone in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 25, 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of AWS Wavelength in Senegal in partnership with Sonatel, an affiliate of Orange. This is the first Wavelength Zone in Sub-Saharan Africa and the second Wavelength Zone…
IBM Expands Software Availability on the AWS Marketplace to 18 African Countries Including Kenya
May 7, 2024
IBM has announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding to 18 countries in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy…
AWS Set to Offer Free AI Skills Training to Kenyans
April 25, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that its AI Ready initiative will be available in Kenya. This initiative seeks to equip 2 million people with AI skills by 2025. The current estimates by the World…
Amazon Successfully Lobbies Kenyan Government to Drop 30% Ownership Rule
March 31, 2023
The Kenyan government has dropped a policy requiring foreign-owned firms to sell at least 30% of their stakes to local investors after US-based tech giant Amazon successfully lobbied President William Ruto to remove the foreign…
Zalego Academy is now part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training Partner Program
March 29, 2022
Zalego Academy has announced that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver training and certification for cloud skills to learners in Kenya. Zalego Academy has joined the cloud provider’s Training Partner Program and…