Amazon Inc. and Microsoft Inc. have a rival as Huawei’s cloud service will be available in South Africa’s organizations as well as neighboring countries, it said.
The Chinese fast-growing tech firm, at the handling global security concerns, will challenge Amazon.com Inc, which is also increasing its presence in the emerging tech hub of Cape Town in a challenge against cloud computing rival Microsoft Corp.
China’s Huawei will build two data centers in South Africa from March, it said, as part of plans to expand cloud services across Africa.
“The company is working with South African partners for the construction of the data centers in Johannesburg initially and later Cape Town,” Huawei said in a statement.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is the global leader in cloud computing finds a challenge in Huawei.
In the last quarter of 2018 AWS’s revenue grew 46 percent to $7 billion while Microsoft’s grew 76 percent to $4 billion to remain in second place, data from the research showed.