Best Cloud Regions for Southern Africa — October 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Southern Africa, based on all of October 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	Huawei	Johannesburg (ZA)	15.8ms	10.0ms	0.3%	6	16	70
2	Azure	Johannesburg (ZA)	19.9ms	19.9ms	0.1%	6	16	76
3	Oracle	Johannesburg (ZA)	25.2ms	19.9ms	1.1%	6	15	51
4	GCP	Cape Town (ZA)	40.3ms	22.3ms	0.1%	6	16	74
5	AWS	Cape Town (ZA)	23.6ms	25.5ms	0.1%	6	16	74
6	Tencent	Riyadh (SA)	173.7ms	99.9ms	0.0%	2	2	2
7	GCP	Frankfurt (DE)	134.5ms	107.0ms	0.0%	4	6	8
8	Huawei	Riyadh (SA)	171.4ms	107.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
9	Oracle	Ashburn (US)	167.8ms	113.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
10	Oracle	Montreal (CA)	185.9ms	115.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
11	GCP	Columbus (US)	178.2ms	118.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
12	Azure	Dubai (AE)	145.6ms	118.0ms	0.5%	6	13	42
13	AWS	Montreal (CA)	177.4ms	124.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
14	GCP	Moncks Corner (US)	182.6ms	125.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
15	Azure	Doha (QA)	150.5ms	128.0ms	0.2%	6	12	37
16	GCP	Council Bluffs (US)	194.9ms	136.0ms	0.0%	2	2	2
17	GCP	St. Ghislain (BE)	139.3ms	139.5ms	0.0%	5	6	12
18	Azure	Madrid (ES)	126.3ms	140.5ms	0.2%	7	17	82
19	GCP	Madrid (ES)	134.4ms	141.0ms	0.0%	7	12	34
20	Oracle	London (GB)	132.7ms	145.0ms	0.0%	6	11	20

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