Head within the cloud: AWS Summit in Johannesburg attracts an 8,000-strong crowd

On the 2024 AWS Summit in Johannesburg, 8,000 stakeholders gathered on the Sandton Conference Heart on 29 August to debate the newest tendencies in cloud computing. From the displays and demonstrations on the stalls scattered throughout the 11,000 sq. metre exhibition corridor, startups and corporates are evolving their cloud computing use instances to make the most of the know-how’s evolving capabilities.

There was an indication of a generative AI-powered dictation product which permits the nearly impaired to remodel their spoken phrases into written phrases.

“By way of the cloud-powered database, this product permits the nearly impaired to kind and draw similar to you and me,” the presenter tells the wide-eyed viewers.

Ladies In Tech panel session on the AWS Summit in Johannesburg. (Picture supply: AWS)

On the keynote stage, David Brown, vp of AWS compute and networking, confirmed how Ghanaian well being tech startup mPharma makes use of cloud computing to scale its stock administration options to hospitals.

“Each fashionable enterprise is an information enterprise and cloud computing permits them to concentrate on utilizing this information to construct merchandise with out having to fret in regards to the intricacies of the way to handle it,” Brown tells the viewers.

Media roundtable dialogue that includes from L-R, David Brown (Vice President, AWS Compute and Networking Providers) , Aasif Karachi(Director: Strategic Alliance Chief at Deloitte , Chris Erasmus (Nation Basic Supervisor, South Africa, AWS and Strini Mudaly (Vice President of Info and Communication, Gold Fields). (Picture supply: AWS)

Capitec, South Africa’s largest financial institution by purchasers with over 22 million clients, has additionally deployed its robocall-detection product on AWS. The product informs clients whether or not they’re speaking to a professional Capitec employees or a possible fraudster.

“Up to now we’ve analysed over 5 million calls which helps our clients keep secure and protected against potential fraud,” stated Blessing Mgaga, Capitec’s division govt of retail shopper expertise supply.

Whether or not it’s bringing medicines nearer to houses, serving to the nearly impaired write down their ideas or tackling digital fraud, one factor is obvious–cloud computing use instances in Africa are expansive. With AI taking the foray and enabling innovators to construct much more merchandise, cloud computing will play a significant position in offering the requisite compute energy to convey the improvements to life.