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Amazon Web Services can’t run a local African Fortnite server…yet

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Amazon Web Services are finally live in South Africa! Well sort of, but while Amazon gets the fine-tuning and tinkering done until a wider rollout of those cloud services can be properly launched, one thing is for certain: People want local Fortnite servers. The biggest game on the planet has its fair share of local players, who are drawn in by Fortnite’s addictive gameplay and its main selling point being that it’s completely free.

The local Facebook group is demanding that the AWS servers provide local Fortnite support and the hashtag #FortniteAfricanServers is trending on Twitter. Whereas giving most games a local server option is primarily awful due to said games becoming a ghost town of lengthy lobby waits about a week after launch, Fortnite local servers could work in theory if the audience remains massive on our side of the globe.

Here’s the problem: AWS can’t currently provide that option.

The biggest problem hampering this drive for local servers is that the Amazon AWS implementation has no Elastic Kubernetes Service support yet – and it seems that’s required for Fortnite’s servers.

Long story short, even if Amazon wanted to, they can’t yet provide those local servers that Fortnite players desperately want. And they likely won’t do so either, for a long long time.

Last Updated: April 22, 2020

12 Comments

  1. Please explain how Fortnite Middle East servers launched in early August while AWS Middle East only got the EKS service on the 30th of August.

    And they likely won’t do so either, for a long long time

    do you have any evidence to back up this statement?

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  2. MechMachine

    April 22, 2020 at 15:01

    Darryn, Speaking of Servers. I read somewhere that some of the SA Warzone servers were taken offline or removed for some reason. Is this true ? Been having issues finding low ping games when playing in a team and also after 8pm-10 to 11ish pm.

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    • The D

      April 22, 2020 at 15:13

      Not aware of anything related to that. Is it perhaps not just server maintenance perhaps?

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      • MechMachine

        April 22, 2020 at 15:53

        I suspect it has to do with peak times and my friends connection speeds. I only ever play with them. The one has a 8 meg line and the other is on a rain connection, Normally a 20 meg, but he’s at home from Uni. When I play on my own, which is rarely to never, I find games quickly.

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  3. Andy Jordaan

    April 22, 2020 at 16:58

    Please explain how Fortnite Middle East servers launched in early August while AWS Middle East only got the EKS service on the 30th of August.

    And they likely won’t do so either, for a long long time

    do you have any evidence to back up this statement?

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    • The D

      April 22, 2020 at 17:15

      General consensus among my developer friends. Also, Middle East is a far larger and more lucrative market in terms of gaming, whereas we’re tiny in comparison. Amazon will go where the money is for their services.

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      • Andy Jordaan

        April 22, 2020 at 17:20

        If EKS is needed for Fortnite then how did Fortnite Middle East servers launch in early August when EKS was only available on AWS Middle East on the 30th of August?

        EDIT: Nevermind I was wrong about this. Apologies

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    • xOtakux

      April 23, 2020 at 18:16

      Actually Middle east server launched in mumbai at first and then moved to bahrain. In that case Mumbai had EKS and mumbai used as temporary until bahrain is fully operational.

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  4. #FortniteAfricanServers

    April 23, 2020 at 13:43

  5. Sake

    April 28, 2020 at 18:17

  6. BulletGen

    May 4, 2020 at 02:30

    SA Fortnite gamers: Hey EpicGames, please give us Fortnite servers in SA?
    EpicGames:

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  7. Yusuf Mayet

    August 7, 2020 at 07:30

    And probably the biggest and most anticipated announcement since the Cape Town region opened:
    https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-eks-now-available-cape-town-milan/

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