Identity
- Category
- Company / Operating
- Legal Name
- AWS South Africa Proprietary Limited
- Legal Country
- ZA
- Immediate Parent
- Amazon Web ServicesUS
- Ultimate Parent
- Amazon
- Hierarchy Position
- Subsidiary
- Legal page at https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-za/ named Amazon Web Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd. - CRM legal name 'AWS South Africa Proprietary Limited' was preserved per LEGAL_NAME_ONLY constraint. - Regional AWS pages confirmed South African operational presence for the Africa (Cape Town) region.
The AWS contracting-party page and AWS legal/privacy pages list Amazon Web Services South Africa Proprietary Limited as the South Africa contracting party while identifying Amazon Web Services, Inc. as the AWS corporate entity; ownership % not disclosed (source: https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-contracting-party/).
Firmographics
- Revenue
- $600.0M
- Employees
- 645
- Operational HQ
- Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa
- No official revenue figures were found for AWS South Africa Proprietary Limited in publicly accessible sources. - The estimated revenue of USD 600 million for 2026 is derived from secondary research. - This estimation is based on AWS group revenue share, regional investment scale, and operational proxies. - AWS global revenue was approximately $128.7 billion, and the Africa (Cape Town) region is a small fraction of this global base. - The planned investment of ZAR 46 billion (2018–2029) in South Africa supports a multi-hundred-million-dollar annual revenue run-rate.
- Official company legal page – 2026-04 – Confirms existence of Amazon Web Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd; no entity-level employee count published - Official regulatory certificate (B-BBEE) – 2021-07 – Confirms registered entity (2015/029917/07); certificate does not disclose headcount - Third-party data aggregator (country distribution) – 2026-04 – Shows 2,149 LinkedIn members in South Africa associated with the Amazon Web Services employer profile; used as directional upper-bound for SA workforce - Estimation proxy & adjustment – 2026-04 – Applied conservative payroll factor of ~30% to LinkedIn SA distribution (2149 * 0.30 = 645) to account for contractors, affiliate-employed staff, remote/global employees and platform profile inflation - Recency and caveats – 2026-04 – No authoritative, dated entity-level payroll found; estimate is a best-effort projection for AWS South Africa (Pty) Ltd based on available signals and proxy adjustment
- The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region page on aws.amazon.com confirms AWS operates an Africa region located in Cape Town, indicating an operational footprint in South Africa. - The AWS Marketing Entities page lists AWS South Africa Pty. Ltd. with a legal entity address in South Africa, supporting SA-based operations. - The selected address is the operational hub for AWS in the Africa region, which is the entity in scope. - The parent company's global HQ in Seattle, United States, was discarded as it does not represent the operational location for AWS's Africa region.
Corporate hierarchy
| Entity | Employees | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|---|
Amazon.com, Inc.· Global Ultimate ParentKERN ID 7968185479 | United States | 1,576,000 | $716.9B |
└ Amazon.com LLC· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3762983180 | United States | 789,634 | $0 |
└ Amazon Fulfilment Services, LLC· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 6798863376 | United States | 324,312 | $51.0B |
└ Amazon US Services LLC· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 6855855358 | United States | 279,760 | $0 |
Amazon Web Services, Inc.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3526904742 | United States | 156,697 | $128.7B |
└ Amazon Serviços Brasil Ltda.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3106586135 | United States | 10,500 | $1.5B |
└ Amazon Web Service India Private Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 7901828500 | United States | 3,465 | $2.0B |
└ AWS Australia Pty Ltd· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 8558943669 | United States | 3,363 | $2.7B |
└ AWS Singapore Private Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3973530270 | United States | 2,000 | $953.0M |
└ Amazon Web Services Singapore Private Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 8393296540 | Singapore | 2,000 | $950.0M |
└ AWS Korea LLC· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 4315183866 | United States | 1,391 | $600.0M |
└ AMCS Ltd.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 7311343770 | Ireland | 1,300 | $79.0M |
└ Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 5279412008 | United States | 1,000 | $975.0M |
└ PT AWS Indonesia· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 1201299334 | Indonesia | 753 | $900.0M |
└ AWS South Africa Proprietary Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 6916588004 | South Africa | 645 | $600.0M |
| Canada | 600 | $21.3B | |
└ AWS Turkey Pazarlama Teknoloji Ve Danışmanlik Hizmetleri Limited Şirketi· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 5195509879 | Turkey | 593 | $1.0B |
└ Amazon Web Services Costa Rica SRL· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 7461158214 | Costa Rica | 473 | $9.0M |
└ AWS Security Assurance Services LLC· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 2957217274 | United States | 400 | $149.0B |
└ AWS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 5445059137 | United States | 400 | $1.6B |
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