A cloud IaaS platform for African enterprises and developers to deploy VMs, storage, private networking, bare metal, and GPU compute in local regions.

GoCloud Product Overview

Is GoCloud Right for You?

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Best For

  • African enterprises
  • Dev teams

What It Does Well

  • Virtual machines
  • Object storage

Things to Check

  • Region availability by country
  • Data residency needs

About GoCloud

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GoCloud by Metronet is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for African enterprises, startups, and developers that need cloud compute, storage, and networking hosted in African regions.

Key capabilities include:

  • Elastic Compute (VMs) that the website advertises can provision in under 30 seconds, with per-second billing
  • Object and block storage, including S3-compatible object storage and block volumes; the website advertises no egress fees and free snapshots up to 1TB
  • Private networking features such as VPCs, peering, firewall-as-a-service, and BGP, designed to be programmable via API
  • GPU compute with on-demand NVIDIA H100 and A100 clusters for AI/ML workloads

Available via web console plus developer interfaces including CLI, Terraform, and a REST API (API documentation: https://gocloud.africa/documentation).

Target users include teams building and operating production infrastructure in Africa, such as backend and platform engineers, DevOps teams, and companies running latency-sensitive applications.

Notable for its focus on African data sovereignty and local deployment regions (Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi, Accra, Johannesburg listed), with Naira and USD billing and an advertised 99.99% uptime SLA. Pricing and service claims should be confirmed with the provider.

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Variable pricingPer-second billing priced in Naira, with no egress fees and commit discounts of up to 40%. Entry-tier VMs start at $0.008/hour; an example Growth setup (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer) is estimated at $49/month. Free bandwidth and snapshots up to 1 TB; $300 startup credits.

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Frequently Asked Questions About GoCloud

GoCloud is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform for deploying compute, storage, and networking in African regions. You can manage resources through its web console or developer interfaces.

The website lists virtual machines starting at $0.008 per hour and a Growth estimate of $49 per month. It also advertises per-second billing, a free trial, and $300 in startup credits.

GoCloud lists regions in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa.

Click "Deploy Now" or "Start free trial" on the GoCloud website to create an account. No credit card is required, and eligible startups can get $300 in credits plus free migration.

GoCloud is best suited for African businesses, startups, and developers that need to deploy or operate cloud infrastructure in African regions.

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