Sebowa in the national cloud conversation
President Cyril Ramaphosa named Sebowa when discussing South Africa’s investment in its own cloud infrastructure.
South African cloud infrastructure
Your Local Cloud.
Your Local Cloud.
Hosted in South Africa.
Sebowa provides locally operated OpenStack cloud infrastructure for researchers, academic institutions and organisations building digital services in South Africa. Run your workloads on a platform designed to support local control of infrastructure and data.
Hosted in South AfricaOpenStack with Ceph storageAcademic and commercial access
The platform
Cloud infrastructure close to home
Sebowa gives teams access to virtual compute and storage on South African infrastructure, with options for academic work and commercial projects.
Locally operated
Host workloads on infrastructure in South Africa while retaining control of how your cloud resources are configured and used.
Build and experiment
Launch applications, websites and test environments without purchasing or maintaining physical servers.
Open cloud foundation
Use OpenStack cloud resources backed by Ceph storage with three copies, as described in the Sebowa service offering.
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Cloud services
Choose your Sebowa access
Whether you are working on a research project or operating a commercial service, choose the offering that fits your organisation.
Academic
For academia, research projects and NGOs
Free*
Build applications and websites with cloud resources for research and experimentation.
- Six month access period
- OpenStack cloud with Ceph storage (three copies)
- Evaluation every six months to renew
- Suitable for simple web apps, custom websites and test environments
Commercial
For organisations building and running cloud services
Tiered* · usage based
Configure resources to suit your workload under a twelve month commercial agreement.
- OpenStack cloud with Ceph storage (three copies)
- Twelve month commercial agreement
- Suitable for web apps, custom websites and test environments
Resource ratesR0.23 per vCPU hourR0.14 per GB hour of vRAMR0.0017 per GB hour of storage (volumes, images and block storage)
Apply for commercial access* Academic access is subject to evaluation and renewal every six months. Commercial charges depend on resources used and the terms of the twelve month agreement. Contact Sebowa for application and agreement details.
Our users
Who uses Sebowa
Sebowa provides locally operated cloud infrastructure supporting organisations and public-sector initiatives in South Africa.
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