Industry Findings: Enterprise demand for cloud compute in Nigeria continues to rise as organizations expand digital platforms supporting financial services, telecommunications, retail, and public-sector modernization. Enterprises are upgrading enterprise IT systems and analytics environments while managing connectivity variability, cost sensitivity, and evolving data governance expectations. Policy direction advanced in Jun-2024 when Nigeria reinforced national data protection and cloud usage guidance for government and regulated workloads, emphasizing data security and service continuity. This guidance has influenced private-sector cloud adoption, particularly for payment systems and citizen-facing digital services. Hybrid deployment models have gained traction, allowing enterprises to balance scalability with localized risk controls and data handling requirements. Demand remains focused on general-purpose and memory-optimized virtual machines supporting enterprise IT and analytics workloads. Elastic compute supports development activities and variable demand tied to digital service growth. Through 2025, enterprises have continued prioritizing predictable performance, incremental migration, and cost discipline rather than aggressive scale expansion.
Industry Player Insights: Providers active in Nigeria include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and MainOne Cloud. In Sep-2024, MainOne expanded cloud compute capacity supporting enterprise and public-sector workloads hosted in Nigeria. In Feb-2025, Google Cloud increased regional availability of compute-optimized instances, strengthening support for analytics and data-intensive enterprise applications.