Block volumes in Dar es Salaam

Standard SSD delivers up to 10,000 IOPS and suits web apps, dev environments, and small databases. High-Performance NVMe reaches 64,000 IOPS and 1 GB/s for demanding databases and real-time analytics. Standard HDD favours cheap throughput for logs, media, and backups.

Yes. Volumes resize instantly while attached and in use — then you extend the filesystem (resize2fs for ext4, xfs_growfs for XFS). Volumes can only grow, not shrink.

Snapshots are instant and incremental — only changed blocks are stored after the first one. Restore a volume to any snapshot, or clone a snapshot into a new volume. Snapshot storage bills at $0.15/GB per month.

Every volume is replicated three times across separate physical drives, and failed drives are reconstructed automatically. That yields 99.999% durability with a 99.99% availability SLA.

Yes. Use volumes as boot disks with custom OS images, resize the boot disk as you grow, and move a bootable volume between instances.

Yes. Volumes are encrypted with AES-256 before data touches disk, using platform-managed keys or your own via KMS. Data in transit is encrypted too.

You pay for provisioned size, metered hourly, whether or not the volume is attached — a 100 GB Standard SSD volume costs $25.30 a month. Billing stops when you delete the volume.

Volumes range from 10 GB (50 GB on HDD) up to 16 TB, with up to 16 volumes attached per instance. Account limits are raised on request.

In tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region. A volume is created in a region and stays there — it attaches to instances in that same region, and it does not leave Tanzania unless you copy a snapshot out yourself.

It is in build and there is no public date. Send [email protected] the workload and the rough size and you go on the list — you hear from us when there is something to attach, rather than when a calendar says so.

Indicative launch pricing is TZS 506 per GB a month for Standard SSD, TZS 850 for High-Performance NVMe and TZS 300 for Standard HDD, billed on provisioned size and metered hourly, with snapshots billed separately. Prices exclude VAT. These are the figures we expect to open with, published so you can plan against them.

Tell [email protected] what you would run on it, on which tier and at what size. Those conversations decide what comes first, and the teams having them are the ones we come back to when there is something to try.

Yes. Volumes created in tz-1a are held in Dar es Salaam and are not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act. Your duties as a controller, registration included, are unchanged.

Not for data that stays in Tanzania — the Commission's permit regime governs transfers out of the country, and that question does not arise for a volume held in Dar es Salaam. Whether any of your other processing needs a permit is between you and the Personal Data Protection Commission.

Because it lives and dies with the server, cannot move, and cannot grow past the plan it came with. A volume outlives the instance, detaches and reattaches to another machine in the same region, and resizes while it is mounted. The difference shows up on the day you want a bigger machine, or the day you no longer want that one.

Object storage is an S3 API you write buckets to over HTTP — right for archives, field submissions, backups and anything served to a browser. A block volume is a disk attached to one instance, with a filesystem on it, that your database reads and writes through ordinary file operations. Buckets hold what you keep; volumes hold what you are working on. Most Tanzanian systems end up wanting both, in the same region.

No — a block volume attaches to one instance at a time. Shared access across a fleet is what File Storage is for, and it is on the same launch path.

Cross-region snapshot copies are planned, on the same account as tz-1a. Make the call deliberately for personal data: a copy in ke-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Tanzania under the Act, and the permit regime applies to it. Application images, build artefacts and logs without personal data raise no such question.

In TZS, with M-Pesa and other mobile money, bank transfer, or card — the same methods as the rest of your account. Nothing converts, no international transaction lands on the statement, and no bank adds a foreign-transaction fee.

No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Mainland VAT on digital and electronic services is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout. Zanzibar is administered separately.

Annual billing runs ten months for twelve on eligible plans — one approval, one payment, one document for the file. Tell [email protected] when your grant or budget year starts and it can be lined up with it rather than cutting across it.

Yes. Creating, attaching, resizing and snapshotting are API and CLI operations on the same account and credentials as the rest of the platform, so a volume is something your pipeline provisions rather than something somebody remembers to click.

Customer references are available under NDA for the products that are live today, object storage in tz-1a among them. Tell [email protected] what you are building and you will be pointed at the closest match.

Yes: +255 761 847 121, alongside [email protected] and the ticket system. Tanzania is on East Africa Time year-round with no daylight saving, so business hours mean one thing all year.