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…
AWS Launches First Skills Center Community Classroom in Kenya
April 4, 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of the first AWS Skills Center community classroom in Kenya. This AWS Skills Center has successfully concluded a three-day in-person cloud computing skills initiative at the University…
Halcyon and AWS Launch Fellowship to Support Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa
February 26, 2025
Halcyon has announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighting their shared commitment to combat food insecurity and accelerate transformative change in Africa through innovation in agricultural technology. This collaboration has already identified 10…
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…
SAS expands hosted managed services to AWS
April 19, 2024
SAS has officially expanded its SAS-hosted managed services to Amazon Web Services (AWS). A strategic addition to the SAS Managed Services portfolio, the expansion gives customers more options for how they choose to deploy and manage their…
Amazon Opens AWS Development Centre in Nairobi
October 4, 2023
Earlier today, the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Development Centre in Kenya was opened in Nairobi. The event was, graced by President William Ruto, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, and prominent figures from the ICT industry….
Amazon Web Services to Upskill 10,000 Students in Kenya with AWS Academy
April 4, 2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Authority have announced a plan to upskill 10,000 students across 10 higher education institutions in Kenya on AWS Academy in 2023. This program aims to…
Amazon Set to Launch a New AWS Local Zone Cloud Infrastructure in Kenya
April 12, 2022
Amazon has announced that it will launch a new AWS Zone Cloud Infrastructure in Kenya. The company has not shared the ETA or the exact details on when this will happen but that should take…