Africa's most connected city — the continent's premier digital hub serving over 1.1 billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dedicated bare metal servers in Johannesburg with JINX peering and strong sub-Saharan links, supporting Africa's growing cloud infrastructure market.Explore Features
Johannesburg is Africa's premier connectivity hub and the largest economy on the continent. Our facility provides the reliable, enterprise-grade compute needed to serve Africa's rapidly growing digital economies across banking, fintech, e-commerce, and mobile services.
With strong sub-Saharan continental reach and international bandwidth via Cape Town submarine cable systems to Europe, our Johannesburg ZEC and bare metal solutions are the logical choice for businesses expanding into the African market.
Quick answers to common questions about deploying compute, bare metal and cloud connectivity in Johannesburg.
Zenlayer's Johannesburg location is in the AFRICA region. It peers locally via Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), NAPAfrica IX. Upstream connectivity is provided through MTN, Vodacom, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, NTT.
Zenlayer Cloud Connect supports dedicated Layer 2 paths from Johannesburg to major hyperscalers. See the Cloud Connect panel on this page for the clouds currently available at this location.
Johannesburg is connected to the Zenlayer private backbone with deterministic, low-latency paths to other Zenlayer locations. The full latency matrix is published on this page. You can also use Looking Glass on this page to run live PING / MTR / BGP checks.
Bare metal cloud (BMC) servers aren't generally available in Johannesburg yet. Contact us to scope custom or bulk deployments, or see the Bare Metal documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
Zenlayer Elastic Compute (ZEC) virtual machines aren't available in Johannesburg yet. Contact us for availability, or see the Elastic Compute documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
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Deploy your infrastructure in Johannesburg and reach Sub-Saharan Africa's 500 million internet users.