Orena

Orena Cloud is a pan-African cloud infrastructure platform for startups, SMEs, and enterprises that need in-region hosting for applications, data, and production workloads.

Key capabilities include:

• Compute and networking: Launch virtual machines and private VPC networks, plus options for dedicated servers and bare metal (including full root access on bare metal).
• Storage and backups: S3-compatible object storage (works with AWS SDK, boto3, and s3cmd by swapping the endpoint), block storage, and Backups & Recovery with scheduled backups, in-region retention, and verified restores.
• Managed databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis with automated backups every 6 hours.
• Developer access and automation: A web console plus REST API and CLI for provisioning VMs, managing databases, configuring firewalls, and querying billing; the platform also supports GitHub auto-deploy for apps (including Docker, Node, Python, and static sites).

Available on Web (console), plus REST API and CLI (API docs: https://docs.orenacloud.com).

Target audience: B2B teams across startups, SMEs, and regulated enterprises running customer-facing apps, internal systems, databases, and storage-heavy workloads.

Notable in an African context for its Nairobi (ke-1) region, focus on regional data residency, local-currency billing options (KES, ZAR, NGN, MAD, EGP, GHS, USD), and local payment methods including M-Pesa and Paystack. The site also states a 99.9% uptime SLA, Tier III data centres, and ISO 27001-certified infrastructure.