Best Cloud Regions for Southern Africa — August 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Southern Africa, based on all of August 2026's measurements across 1000+ cities worldwide. Published on the 1st of each month for the previous month. Compare AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Tencent, Huawei and Alibaba to pick the fastest region for Southern Africa.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	Azure	Johannesburg (ZA)	1.0ms	0.7ms	0.0%	1	4	18
2	GCP	Cape Town (ZA)	1.3ms	1.1ms	0.0%	1	5	15
3	Huawei	Johannesburg (ZA)	2.2ms	2.8ms	0.0%	1	3	12
4	AWS	Cape Town (ZA)	26.2ms	27.5ms	0.0%	1	4	12
5	Azure	Dubai (AE)	103.5ms	100.0ms	0.0%	1	4	12
6	Azure	Doha (QA)	112.9ms	110.0ms	0.0%	1	4	12
7	Azure	Madrid (ES)	140.6ms	140.0ms	0.0%	1	4	12
8	GCP	Madrid (ES)	153.5ms	153.0ms	0.0%	1	4	13
9	Azure	Paris (FR)	155.9ms	156.0ms	0.0%	1	2	4
10	AWS	Zaragoza (ES)	162.1ms	159.0ms	0.0%	1	5	7
11	GCP	Paris (FR)	158.3ms	159.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
12	Azure	Brussels (BE)	159.9ms	159.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
13	Azure	London (GB)	161.0ms	161.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
14	Azure	Frankfurt (DE)	162.6ms	162.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
15	Azure	Amsterdam (NL)	164.3ms	163.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
16	GCP	London (GB)	163.2ms	164.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
17	AWS	Paris (FR)	167.2ms	168.0ms	0.0%	1	3	7
18	Oracle	London (GB)	179.7ms	169.0ms	0.0%	1	2	5
19	Azure	Milan (IT)	168.4ms	169.0ms	0.0%	1	3	7
20	Azure	Dublin (IE)	168.8ms	169.0ms	0.0%	1	5	7

Ranking month: August 2026 · Updated: 2026-11-03arrow_backBack to global leaderboards