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Egypt has good connections to Europe and the Middle East, so there's no need for a new region there. Host in Madrid, Milan or Tel Aviv instead.

South Africa is filling a gap.

Egypt is also larger in GDP than South Africa, 2nd on the continent behind Nigeria[1].

The interesting piece in decision process from my view is can North African customers support their operations with European regions due to the better peering/additional cabling while further south they really need something local in order to drive cloud adoption?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_G...

Absolutely not. It's not politically stable enough and is too close to Europe, so there isn't a big enough ping time benefit.

Egypt generally bans encryption, so that would not work for GC.

Way higher up in Africa than SA?