Kenya PaaS Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Subscription Model, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: Kenya’s enterprise buyers are reacting to a clearer set of commitments from global cloud players that include local investment, which reduces perceived supplier risk and makes PaaS adoption more attractive. Procurement teams now prioritise vendors that combine in-country programmes (skills, governance) with direct infrastructure commitments, because those features materially shorten compliance checks and accelerate time-to-production for regulated and consumer-facing workloads.

Industry Progression: The largest verified supply-side step was Microsoft and G42’s joint announcement in May-2024 of a comprehensive, billion-dollar digital investment package for Kenya, which included plans for an East Africa Cloud Region and significant skills and capacity initiatives; that May-2024 commitment catalysed local procurement pilots for PaaS services hosted under Kenyan jurisdiction and encouraged telcos and integrators to assemble managed platform offers for domestic enterprises.

Industry Player Insights: Players operating in the Kenya industry are Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Safaricom, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies etc. The supplier mix reflects hyperscaler commitments (Microsoft’s May-2024 package, Oracle region plans) alongside regional carriers like Safaricom and infrastructure specialists (Liquid), which together create credible PaaS deployment paths; these joint moves have prompted enterprise pilots that test sovereign-hosted runtimes and integrated DevOps toolchains.