Why Africa’s Best Teams Build With Us.

Africa's infrastructure landscape is unique. We combine global AWS standards with deep local execution experience.

01

We're engineers, not salespeople

Every person on a Cidarnet engagement is a practising AWS engineer, not a project manager reading from a runbook. Our architects have designed systems processing millions of transactions. When you ask a technical question, you get a technical answer from someone who's built it before.

02

We build for African infrastructure realities

We don't copy-paste AWS reference architectures from blog posts. We design for Nigerian internet connectivity, generator-powered data centres, cost-sensitive businesses, and markets where a 30-second outage means lost customers. Our architectures survive local conditions, not just availability zone failures.

03

We measure outcomes, not hours

Every engagement has clear KPIs agreed upfront: uptime percentage, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, AWS cost reduction. We report on these monthly. If the numbers aren't improving, we change our approach, not our invoice.

FAQ

Questions engineering teams ask us

How long does a typical AWS migration take?
Most migrations take 4 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on the number of workloads and their complexity. We always start with a 2-week assessment to map dependencies before committing to a timeline. Payment systems and regulated workloads sit at the longer end; static web apps and internal tools move faster.

Do you work with startups or only enterprises?
Both. Our sweet spot is Series A to Series C companies with 3 to 40 engineers where infrastructure is now a bottleneck. We also partner with larger enterprises on specific programs (security overhauls, cost audits). We do not take on very early-stage clients who haven't found product-market fit yet.

How do you charge: fixed price or hourly?
Project work is fixed-price with clear milestones. Managed Cloud and ongoing optimization are monthly retainers. Our audits and assessments are fixed-price with a flat deliverable. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices. If the scope grows, we agree on a change order before starting.

What happens if something breaks in production?
Managed Cloud clients get a 15-minute response SLA on P1 incidents, 24/7. Project clients get 30 days of hypercare after go-live at no additional cost. Beyond that, we offer incident-response retainers. Every system we ship includes automated rollback, runbooks, and paging integrations so incidents are contained, not compounded.

Can you help if we're already on AWS but struggling?
Yes, and this is a common starting point. We run a Well-Architected review across reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence, then prioritise the 3 to 5 fixes that will move the needle most. You get a concrete action plan you can execute yourself, or we can execute it for you.

How do you protect our data and AWS credentials?
We work inside your AWS account using IAM roles you control, never shared credentials. All access is logged via CloudTrail. We sign NDAs upfront and follow NDPC-compliant data handling. You can revoke our access in one click at any point. We never copy your data to our environments without explicit written approval.

Mission

To build AWS infrastructure that African businesses can depend on. Architected for performance, secured by default, and operated by engineers who understand what downtime actually costs.

Vision

To be the cloud partner that engineering teams recommend to each other, because the infrastructure we built is still running without issues two years later.

AWS Partnership & Certifications

Our team holds certifications across architecture, DevOps, and security.

Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional Security Specialty Cloud Practitioner