Oracle recently announced it was opening a new datacenter in Bogota, Columbia for their public cloud. This marks the third region they have in South America.
Its major cloud competitors lag behind:
Oracle
- Vinhedo, Brazil
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Bogota, Colombia
Microsoft Azure
- Santiago, Chile
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
Google Cloud
- Santiago, Chile
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
Amazon AWS
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
It’s strange that AWS has only Sao Paulo. Even Vultr has Santiago and Sao Paulo. (Linode/Akamai has Sao Paulo, while DigitalOcean has nothing in South America.)
South America has long been an Internet back water. We don’t see many offers, in part because most international connectivity is routed through the U.S. which adds cost and latency. Perhaps as big clouds move into the region, this situation will improve?
It’s interesting to see Columbia emerging. Geographically, it makes sense. As the most northern South American country except Panama, the country benefits from lower latency to North America.
What do you think about South American hosting? Are you interested in hosting there?
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It’s “Colombia” not Columbia. Just saying.