Vodacom Business Attains the AWS Outposts Ready Designation

To assist businesses with their hybrid cloud experience, Vodacom Business has achieved the status of the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner in Africa, to attain the AWS Outposts Ready designation.

This means our business clients, both small and large enterprises, can benefit from a deep heritage in the provision of datacenter managed services from both Vodacom and AWS, by having the choice to adopt cloud flexibly and at their own speed. From private cloud on-premises or in the Vodacom datacenter, public cloud on AWS’s local availability zones or a combination of private and public when they deploy in a hybrid manner.

This achievement recognises that Vodacom Business, with over 12 years in Tier certified DC (datacenter) managed services has demonstrated proven relevant domain experience and undergone business and technical enablement to successfully design, integrate and manage AWS Outposts solutions. This compliments the recently attained designation of the AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Program.

AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure, application programming interfaces (APIs), products and tools to any datacenter, co-location space or on-premises facility. This is ideal for organisations that require latency sensitive applications, as AWS Outposts can help businesses run applications where they need them to be located. AWS Outposts also allows data to be processed locally, while keeping data lakes and ML training cloud services in a region, which means moving data to the cloud for long-term archival is easier. In addition, with AWS Outposts the location of where workloads run and where the data resides can be controlled, while using local operational tooling for monitoring and stability.