Best Cloud Regions for South Africa — July 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to South Africa, based on all of July 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 South Africa.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	Azure	Johannesburg (ZA)	1.1ms	1.2ms	0.0%	1	3	20
2	GCP	Cape Town (ZA)	2.2ms	1.7ms	0.0%	1	3	15
3	Huawei	Johannesburg (ZA)	2.9ms	3.0ms	0.0%	1	3	15
4	AWS	Cape Town (ZA)	28.1ms	28.0ms	0.0%	1	2	13
5	Azure	Dubai (AE)	101.5ms	100.0ms	0.0%	1	3	15
6	Azure	Doha (QA)	112.4ms	111.0ms	0.0%	1	2	13
7	GCP	Madrid (ES)	143.5ms	139.0ms	0.0%	1	3	15
8	Azure	Madrid (ES)	140.5ms	140.0ms	0.0%	1	2	14
9	GCP	Paris (FR)	159.3ms	154.5ms	0.0%	1	2	8
10	Azure	Paris (FR)	158.8ms	155.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
11	AWS	Zaragoza (ES)	156.1ms	159.0ms	0.0%	1	2	8
12	Azure	Brussels (BE)	162.8ms	159.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
13	Azure	London (GB)	162.2ms	161.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
14	Azure	Frankfurt (DE)	165.5ms	162.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
15	Azure	Amsterdam (NL)	166.2ms	163.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
16	GCP	London (GB)	163.1ms	163.5ms	0.0%	1	2	6
17	AWS	Paris (FR)	167.0ms	168.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
18	Azure	Zurich (CH)	171.3ms	168.0ms	0.0%	1	0	5
19	Oracle	London (GB)	167.2ms	169.0ms	0.0%	1	2	7
20	Azure	Milan (IT)	168.8ms	169.0ms	0.0%	1	1	2

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