AFRICLOUD has launched a data centre presence in Lisbon, Portugal, with services available to customers from July 2025. The expansion forms part of the company’s strategy to bridge cloud infrastructure between Africa, Western Europe and South America, and adds a European node to its existing Johannesburg footprint.
Tri-continental positioning
The Lisbon facility is positioned as an interconnection point between three continents, leveraging Portugal’s undersea cable infrastructure. The country hosts landings for the EllaLink, Equiano, and the upcoming Nuvem cable systems, with onward connectivity to more than 115 cable landing stations expected by 2026.
Hardware specification
Servers in the Lisbon facility run on AMD EPYC processors with up to 128 cores per server, with NVMe storage configured in RAID10. Each server can be specified with up to 1 TB of RAM and dual 100 Gbps network adapters, a profile aimed at high-performance applications, gaming workloads, e-commerce platforms, and enterprise deployments.
VPS plans
AFRICLOUD’s Lisbon site offers eight Virtual Server plans starting at $20 per month. Network speeds range from 1 Gbps to 8 Gbps, with NVMe storage allocations from 20 GB to 320 GB across the range. All plans use NVMe storage by default, which the company says suits memory-intensive workloads such as AI inference, machine learning, and large-scale databases.
Target customers
The company is positioning Lisbon for European SaaS firms expanding into Africa and South America, tourism platforms with international audiences, gaming companies that need low-latency European connectivity, and financial services firms requiring access to European markets. AFRICLOUD says sub-30 ms latency is achievable to most major European cities, alongside direct connectivity to African markets via the undersea cables.
Network and peering
The Lisbon data centre maintains direct connections to DE-CIX Lisbon and DE-CIX Madrid, alongside premium IP transit providers. AFRICLOUD says the peering footprint is intended to deliver consistent routing and minimal packet loss. The network architecture provides 24/7 connectivity with the redundancy and security controls expected of a Tier-class deployment.
Compliance
Operating within the European Union framework, the Lisbon facility is subject to EU data protection regulations and operates to European environmental and security standards.
Customer interface
Self-managed VPS customers receive access to AFRICLOUD’s web dashboard for virtual machine creation and management, with technical support available for hardware and network issues. The company also operates a knowledge base for self-service support.
Availability
AFRICLOUD’s Lisbon presence is open for customer deployments from July 2025. Full pricing and specifications are listed at africloud.com/lisbon.
About AFRICLOUD
AFRICLOUD was founded in February 2025 and provides Virtual Server hosting from data centres in Lisbon and Johannesburg. The company runs Dell PowerEdge servers and peers with multiple top-tier IP transit providers, with peering also extended to major Internet Exchange Points in the regions it serves.
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