{"id":593380,"date":"2022-06-03T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=593380"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:59:33","slug":"business-talk-chris-erasmus-on-the-importance-of-aws-local-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/593380\/business-talk-chris-erasmus-on-the-importance-of-aws-local-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Chris Erasmus on the importance of AWS Local Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Erasmus is the commercial sector leader for AWS in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He is committed to helping businesses leverage the secure AWS platform to scale and grow.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus believes that AWS\u2019s cloud products and solutions help businesses build applications that offer increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Erasmus discusses AWS Local Zones &#8211; solutions that place AWS compute, storage, database, and other services at the edge of the cloud near large populations, industries, and IT centres.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus talks about the success of the Cape Town AWS Local Zone, and why AWS is implementing a new Local Zone in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>He also outlines the benefits that Local Zones facilitate for South African businesses, and explains why South Africa is an important market for the group.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Chris Erasmus can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKCkxU6QdZE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Erasmus of AWS discusses Local Zones \u2013 including their benefits and AWS\u2019s plan to implement one in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":593392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14873,15578,16998],"class_list":["post-593380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-aws","tag-business-talk","tag-chris-erasmus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593460,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593380\/revisions\/593460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}