Carrier-neutral data centre provider Wingu Africa has announced the launch of Wingu Cloud Exchange (WCX), a locally hosted private cloud platform tailored for the wider East African region.
WCX offers organisations a secure, compliant, cost-effective, and user-friendly alternative to offshore cloud services, with transparent local-currency pricing, quick deployment, and instant scalability. Wingu asserts that WCX enables businesses to expand workloads seamlessly without complexity or unpredictable expenses.
Initially launching in Tanzania, WCX will gradually expand across all Wingu markets, including Ethiopia and Djibouti. In March, Wingu revealed it was beginning the second phase of its data centre expansion in Tanzania. Currently, Wingu operates two data centres in Djibouti, one in Ethiopia, and another in Somalia, alongside the new Tanzanian facility in Dar es Salaam.
WCX offers a suite of services such as Wingu Compute, Wingu Kubernetes, Wingu Drive, and Wingu Security, empowering organisations to deploy and manage applications while ensuring data remains within regional borders. The platform integrates smoothly with existing on-premises systems and complements global cloud providers like Azure and AWS, providing flexible options aligned with regional operational needs.
“WCX is simple to use, quick to deploy, and designed to give customers real choice. They can run applications locally for better performance, connect with global clouds when necessary, and scale instantly,” said Erkan Satik, Director of Cloud Ecosystem & Alliances at Wingu Africa.
Nicholas Lodge, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Wingu Africa, highlighted that WCX responds directly to regional customer demand for a reliable, practical, and locally delivered cloud platform. He added, “WCX makes cloud adoption straightforward, compliant, predictable in cost, scalable on demand, and tailored to how organisations in the region operate.”
