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Justin Brindley-Koonce, Vice President, AWS Support and Amazon Support Managed Services. [Courtesy]

Why does Nairobi matter to AWS?

As an organization, we are keen to grow and scale up our AWS services in Kenya, a country in a strategic location in Africa. I remember before we set up, several different locations were presented to me, and Nairobi came out on top. I have consulted widely with local teams, including customers and banks, and all conversations were about the growth, curiosity, and innovation that our new center in Nairobi will bring. Everyone is excited about doing new things and taking advantage of AWS cloud services to grow talent around the country.

You have been part of the cloud computing growth. How has the journey been?

I have many stories about cloud computing. When I joined in 2006, cloud computing was a small field. We only had three services: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier; S3, an object storage service capable of storing and retrieving any amount of data from anywhere; and SQS, a fully managed queue service. We were trying to popularize cloud computing. At that time, nobody knew it would become so significant until around 2009. Some people outside AWS even wondered why we were investing so much in cloud computing services. Today, I am excited to see where we are with the cloud.

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