Senegal-based Sonatel is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to launch AWS Wavelength in Senegal. This is the first AWS Wavelength Zone deployed in West Africa and only the second in Africa, strengthening Senegal’s position as a regional technology hub. This launch is part of the momentum of the “New Technology Deal,” a $1.7 billion initiative supported by the government to accelerate Senegal’s digital transformation.
AWS Wavelength Zones are operated in collaboration with AWS partners, and enable companies to build and deploy applications locally, in a way that meets their data residency and low-latency needs. The AWS Wavelength Zone in Senegal will address critical cloud challenges encountered in highly regulated and trusted sectors such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and the public sector that require data to be securely processed and stored locally. It will also deliver optimal performance for use cases where low latency is required, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), gaming or video streaming platforms.
Sonatel will provide customers with a comprehensive support offering for the adoption of AWS services, covering consulting, application migration, cloud resource optimization, and operational support. Sonatel also uses this infrastructure for its own needs, hosting several of its internal applications within the AWS Wavelength Zone, allowing the company to benefit from data residency and low latency, while reducing costs. This choice illustrates Sonatel’s commitment to adopting the solutions it recommends to its customers and to accelerating its own digital transformation through next-generation cloud technologies.
SEKOU DRAME, CEO, Sonatel
By welcoming AWS Wavelength into our Datacenter, we are enabling our customers to consume innovative cloud services, while meeting local requirements in terms of data residency and performance. This progress is part of our mission to make technology accessible, reliable, and useful to the local economy. The cloud is becoming a tangible reality for startups, large companies, and public institutions in Senegal and the sub-region
Jyoti Ball, Sub Saharan Africa Lead, AWS
It’s exciting to bring AWS Wavelength to Senegal, in collaboration with Sonatel. The launch will empower organizations of all sizes with AWS services to unlock innovation and accelerate digital transformation. Access to local AWS compute and storage for data residency, low latency, and security will open up opportunities across a wide range of industries and sectors, and we look forward to seeing how this new Wavelength Zone drives growth for local and regional businesses
