Websprix, Ethiopia’s first private internet service provider (ISP), has launched what it calls a sovereign cloud infrastructure, aligning with a national push toward data localization and digital sovereignty under the Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy. Under the roadmap, the government has made digital sovereignty a priority, calling for homegrown solutions, data localization, and the expansion of sovereign cloud infrastructure, alongside plans to more than double the number of local cloud providers by 2030.
The cloud infrastructure was officially launched on Thursday morning at the Sheraton Addis Hotel, bringing together regulators, enterprise clients, and technology partners. It is hosted through a colocation arrangement with Wingu Africa at ICT Park, one of Ethiopia’s most interconnected facilities, supported by multiple power substations and international connectivity routes, and where the ISP is headquartered.
Founded in 2011, Websprix has been a pioneer of private-sector internet services in Ethiopia and has grown into a key player in the country’s digital connectivity infrastructure. It was among the first companies to deliver fiber connectivity to condominium housing in Addis Ababa through underground cable deployment, a model that later became more widely adopted.
Dawit Birhanu, co-founder and chief executive of the company, said the new service is available to both individual and enterprise customers and is offered through two deployment models: a VMware-based cloud cluster and an OpenStack-based cloud cluster.
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