Amazon Web opens second Africa office in Nigeria
“Lagos offers a highly skilled and creative talent pool, and the area is home to many fast-growing startups and notable Nigerian enterprises leading the way in digital innovation,”
Amazon Web Service (AWS), Amazon’s data centre, has opened its second African-based office in Lagos, Nigeria.
This comes seven years after it opened the first African office in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2015.
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At the time, Amazon wanted to “support the growth of the cloud computing business and its rapidly expanding customer base in the country.”
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The Nigeria office, on the other hand, will bring AWS, which already supports a number of Nigerian start-ups such as SeamlessHR, Yellow Card, BFree, Bankly and public sector organisations, closer to African start-ups.
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The Lagos office is AWS’s latest investment in Africa and will house teams of AWS account managers, partner managers, solutions architects, and other supporting roles.
“Lagos offers a highly skilled and creative talent pool, and the area is home to many fast-growing startups and notable Nigerian enterprises leading the way in digital innovation,” said Amrote Abdella, regional manager of sub-Saharan Africa at AWS.
Two months ago, AWS opened up its second South African office. Amazon also has plans to launch its e-commerce platform in Nigeria and South Africa in a move codenamed “Project Fela”.
Source: techgh24.com
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