Season 1 Episode 9

Chris Erasmus talks about the power of AWS Local Zones

03 June 2022 · 12:39 min

Chris Erasmus is the Commercial Sector Leader for AWS in South Africa. He is committed to helping businesses leverage the secure AWS platform to scale and grow. Erasmus believes that AWS’s cloud products and solutions help businesses build sophisticated applications that offer increased… flexibility, scalability, and reliability.In this Business Talk interview, Erasmus discusses AWS Local Zones. He explains that these are solutions that place AWS compute, storage, database, and other services at the edge of the cloud near large populations, industries, and IT centres. Erasmus talks about the existing Cape Town AWS Local Zone, including the success it has experienced, before discussing why AWS will now be implementing a new Local Zone in Johannesburg. He also outlines the benefits that Local Zones facilitate for South African businesses, before explaining why South Africa is an important market for AWS that it continues to invest in extensively. He concludes by talking about other global AWS Local Zone rollouts and discusses the success they have experienced so far. Show more