Delivery of video content through online platforms is set to be faster following an announcement by Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, that it is launching an Amazon CloudFront Edge location in Kenya, which is expected to be operational in early 2020.
Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and highly available Content Delivery Network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of applications, data, and videos to users worldwide, with high transfer speeds. Kenya is the latest country to be connected to AWS’s global infrastructure network, which is designed and built to deliver the most flexible, reliable, scalable, and secure cloud computing environment with the highest quality network performance available today.
Customers across all industries in Kenya will benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and security of the AWS cloud. The improved and faster user experience, with local Amazon CloudFront infrastructure, will help in driving the development of even more web applications across Kenya, including eCommerce, education, entertainment, gaming, healthcare, media, mobile banking, and government services. Customers across the country can expect up to 50 percent reduction in latency for delivery of their content with the new Edge location. This means that customers can securely create, access, and stream content to end users faster than they could before.
“Innovative Kenyan startups, enterprises, government, education, and nonprofit customers are adopting AWS at a rapid pace. This investment also reflects our support for Kenya’s Big Four Action Plan and our continued commitment to Africa, with Kenya serving as a key hub in the East African region,” said Teresa Carlson, AWS Vice President Worldwide Public Sector.
George Njuguna, Safaricom’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), said the location will also allow for increased speeds in serving real-time digital content to its customers, such as video, music, web-native shows and notifications. “In addition, we will gain unparalleled security features, which will protect our applications from DDoS and other cybersecurity attack, and improve the availability of our services.”
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