Cumulus HQ waives $1,000 cloud cost diagnostic fee for African startups
For many African startups, cloud adoption comes with a cost...
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For many African startups, cloud adoption comes with a cost challenge. While AWS operates on a pay-as-you-go model, companies are often billed for resources they no longer need, forgot to shut down, or incorrectly configured.<br />
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“Cloud costs tend to creep up quietly,” Kelo Okeke, Services Director at Cumulus HQ explains. “You’re charged for what’s running, not necessarily for what’s delivering value. Over time, that can seriously hurt a company’s bottom line.”<br />
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From Cumulus HQ’s experience working with customers, cost concerns cut across company size. Some clients spend upwards of $15,000 monthly on AWS, often without a clear understanding of where inefficiencies lie. A targeted optimisation can lead to 30–40% monthly cost reductions, savings that begin reflecting almost immediately.<br />
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Offering AWS support for African companies<br />
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Founded over a year ago, Cumulus HQ is a cloud services company focused exclusively on AWS. As an AWS Partner, the company provides services that sit on top of AWS’s cloud computing platform, helping customers deploy, manage, secure, and optimise their cloud environments.<br />
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Cumulus HQ supports businesses in taking their applications from local development environments to AWS, setting up the right foundations, and maintaining those systems over time. Its services span cloud deployment, ongoing support, security posture improvement, network optimisation, and most critically for many African startups, cloud cost optimisation.<br />
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The company currently works with customers across Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya, supporting both early-stage startups and more established companies running significant monthly cloud workloads.<br />
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As cloud costs continue to strain startup budgets across Africa, Cumulus HQ, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, is offering relief. The cloud services company, operating across Africa has announced that it is waiving its $1,000 Cloud Cost & Architecture Diagnostic fee for qualified teams, as part of an effort to help startups and growing co...
