AFRICLOUD, the cloud infrastructure provider operating out of Lisbon, Portugal, and Johannesburg, South Africa, has expanded its platform beyond virtual private servers with a suite of storage, networking, and automation services.
The platform, which launched in mid-2025 with KVM-based virtual servers on NVMe storage, now offers block storage volumes, S3-compatible object storage, floating IPs, VPC private networking, managed DNS with authoritative nameservers on both continents, automated backups with cross-data-centre replication, and per-server firewalls. DDoS protection is included on all plans.
Developer tooling and deployment
A REST API documented with an OpenAPI specification provides programmatic access to all platform features. API keys support 16 granular permission scopes with optional IP restriction. Team accounts with role-based access control and OAuth single sign-on via Google and GitHub are available for organisations managing infrastructure collaboratively.
On the deployment side, 16 one-click application templates cover common stacks including WordPress, Docker, LAMP, Node.js, GitLab CE, and Jitsi Meet, alongside 11 operating system images. Servers deploy in under 2 minutes and include browser-based console access via noVNC, custom ISO mounting, and full root access.
Network infrastructure
AFRICLOUD operates its own autonomous system (AS209179) with over 700 BGP peers, including peering at DE-CIX Lisbon, DE-CIX Madrid, INTERIX, and NAPAfrica IX in Johannesburg. The network has 100 Gbps capacity with transit from MEO, Hurricane Electric, Angola Cables, and Workonline, delivering sub-100 millisecond latency to over 40 countries across Africa, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.
The Lisbon facility sits at the intersection of submarine cable systems connecting 3 continents, with a measured latency of 70 milliseconds to Fortaleza, Brazil, via the EllaLink cable. This positions the location for workloads serving both African and South American users from a single deployment.
Payments and availability
Billing supports 5 currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, ZAR, and NGN) with EU VAT validation. Payments are accepted via Stripe, PayPal, and over 200 cryptocurrencies through the NOWPayments gateway. Support is available in English, Portuguese, French, Arabic, and Spanish.
Orders from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa are temporarily restricted until July 2026 due to contractual obligations. Bare metal servers, a public API documentation portal, and a command-line interface tool are on the near-term roadmap. The platform carries a 99.9% uptime SLA.
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