Snowflake is excited to announce a brand-new chapter in its AI Data Cloud infrastructure story in Africa by committing to support AWS in Cape Town by July 2025.
The Global Innovation Index ranks South Africa number one in innovation in Africa, with South Africa hosting the continent’s leading financial hub and a growing technology hub. Because of this, Snowflake is committing to launch this new cloud region to enhance customers’ compliance with regional standards by hosting customer data locally.
Snowflake focuses on helping our customers enhance compliance with regional standards by hosting data locally, without compromising on performance or innovation. The AWS Cape Town deployment will enable customers to retain control over their data, maintain data security and foster trust with their end customers. These deployments will also offer regional customers the flexibility to keep data closer to home while still leveraging the power of Snowflake’s global AI Data Cloud.
Snowflake’s investment in the South African market includes enabling our system integration partners with our One Million Minds initiative, designed to empower learners globally with cutting-edge AI skills and training. By pursuing this expansion with our partners, Snowflake envisions that the scaled growth of our AI Data Cloud platform will position local system integrators, AWS and Snowflake at the forefront of Africa’s digital transformation.
This expansion will open up new possibilities for Snowflake customers to drive innovation through advanced analytics, AI and machine learning applications. By bringing data closer to their end users, Snowflake customers in South Africa can reduce latency and optimize performance for critical workloads.
The launch of Snowflake’s deployments highlights Snowflake’s ongoing commitment to empowering global customers with a consistent experience across cloud providers and regions. This new regional implementation offers greater flexibility for businesses to choose the deployment option that best suits their operational and regulatory needs while enabling them to leverage Snowflake’s full suite of cloud services.
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