Carrier-neutral data centre network Wingu Africa has announce the launch of Wingu Cloud Exchange (WCX), a locally hosted private cloud platform designed for the wider East African region.

Wingu says WCX gives organisations a secure, compliant, cost-effective, and easy-to-use alternative to offshore cloud services. With transparent local-currency pricing, rapid deployment, and instant scalability, the company adds, WCX enables businesses to grow workloads without complexity or unpredictable costs.

WCX launches first in Tanzania, after which the platform will gradually roll out across all Wingu markets, including Ethiopia and Djibouti. We reported in March that Wingu had kicked off the second phase of its data centre expansion in Tanzania. Apart from the Tanzanian facility in Dar es Salaam, Wingu currently operates two data centres in Djibouti and one each in Ethiopia and Somalia.

Wingus says that WCX includes services like Wingu Compute, Wingu Kubernetes, Wingu Drive, and Wingu Security, allowing organisations to deploy and manage applications while keeping data within regional borders.

The platform integrates seamlessly with existing on-premises environments and complements global cloud services such as Azure and AWS, giving customers what Wingu describes as flexible, practical options that fit their current operations.

Erkan Satik, Director of Cloud Ecosystem & Alliances at Wingu Africa, explains: “WCX is simple to use, quick to deploy, and designed to give customers real choice. They can run applications locally for better performance, integrate with global clouds when needed, and scale instantly.”

Nicholas Lodge, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Wingu Africa, points out that Wingu Cloud Exchange is built in direct response to customer demand for a practical, reliable, and locally delivered cloud platform, adding: “WCX makes cloud adoption straightforward, compliant, predictable in cost, scalable on demand, and aligned with how organisations in the region actually operate.”