AWS Africa Cape Town: the right default
For most Nigerian applications, AWS Africa (af-south-1, Cape Town) is the correct cloud region. At 40–80ms latency to Lagos, it is the closest major cloud region and significantly outperforms us-east-1 for Nigerian users.
Local Nigerian data centres
Rack Centre Lagos, MainOne, and MDXi provide local hosting for industries with data residency requirements: CBN-regulated fintech, health records and government data. More expensive than cloud, but mandatory for some regulated workloads.
What it costs
| Hosting type | Monthly (USD) |
|---|---|
| Shared hosting | $2–$15 |
| Managed VPS | $20–$80 |
| AWS EC2 t3.medium (af-south-1) | $35–$60 |
| Local DC (Rack Centre) | $200–$800+ |
| Enterprise cloud (scaled) | $500–$5,000+ |
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