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Managed Databases — launching in Dar es Salaam, tz-1a

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Managed Databases in Tanzania

The beneficiary list, the member register, the container manifest — held in Dar es Salaam.

Everything else in your stack can be replaced in an afternoon. The database cannot: it holds the names, the national ID numbers, the survey responses and the payment rows, and it is the one component a donor's audit and the Personal Data Protection Commission both ask about by name. Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and MariaDB are coming to tz-1a in Dar es Salaam, with backups, patching, monitoring and failover handled — priced in shillings from TZS 29,160 a month at launch. Join the waitlist and we will tell you the week it opens.

FromTZS 29,160/month
  • Launching soon — join the waitlist for early access
  • PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · MariaDB
  • Hosted in Dar es Salaam, tz-1a
  • Data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act — your data stays in-country
  • Quoted and billed in TZS

Launching soon · Billed in TZS

Pricing

One flat price per instance

Pick a size and engine — every plan includes automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability. In your currency, no forex.

Small

TZS 29,160/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 1 vCPU
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 20 GB SSD included
  • 100 connections
  • Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Recommended

Medium

TZS 58,320/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 50 GB SSD included
  • 200 connections
  • Daily backups, 35-day PITR

Large

TZS 116,640/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 100 GB NVMe included
  • 500 connections
  • Daily backups, 35-day PITR

XLarge

TZS 233,280/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 8 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 200 GB NVMe included
  • 1000 connections
  • Daily backups, 35-day PITR

Every plan includes automated backups with 35-day point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability is available on all sizes. Additional storage is billed per GB. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.

Where the database sits

One page view, thirty conversations with the database

A form submission looks like one request. Behind it: the session lookup, the user record, the permission check, a query per row because the framework decided so, the validation read, the write, the audit row. Thirty round trips is an ordinary number for a single page, and every one of them pays the distance between your application and your database twice. That is why a database's location is a different decision from a web server's. A page served from Frankfurt to someone in Kariakoo is one long journey; an application in Dar es Salaam querying a database in Frankfurt is thirty of them, in series, before the first byte of HTML exists.

The people at the other end are easy to place. TCRA's count for the quarter ending March 2026 puts Vodacom at 36.19 million subscriptions, Yas at 31.85 million, Airtel Tanzania at 23.75 million, Halotel at 18.32 million and TTCL at 1.80 million — 111.9 million in total, against 58.9 million internet subscriptions and 84.2% penetration. The largest of the four reaches under a third of the country. No carrier arrangement covers a Tanzanian audience; being inside Tanzania covers all of them at once, and tz-1a is inside Tanzania.

Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam, at TIX, run since 2003 by TISPA, the Tanzanian ISP association — PeeringDB records 32 networks and 798G of connected capacity there, with no port, cross-connect or membership fee. Upcountry, the National ICT Broadband Backbone does the rest: 13,820 km of state fibre laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, reaching every region. One origin in Dar es Salaam therefore has a real answer for an office in Mwanza, a site outside Geita and a clearing agent at Tunduma.

International capacity lands in the same city — SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS come ashore at Dar es Salaam, a named landing point on 2Africa too — so there is no inland haul between the cable and the rack. The large content networks put their edge in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Mombasa; Tanzania has none. A cache in Nairobi is a foreign hop for a Dar es Salaam user, and a cache has never held a database anyway.

111.9M

Telecom subscriptions in Tanzania (TCRA, Q1 2026)

798G

Capacity connected at TIX, Dar es Salaam (PeeringDB)

13,820 km

National backbone fibre laid (NICTBB, FY2024/25)

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Engines at launch — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB

Field data arrives from a phone on a cell

Mobile wireless is roughly 99% of Tanzanian internet connections, with 4G covering 94.2% of the population and smartphone penetration at 42.5%. An enumerator uploading a form from a district office, a driver's telematics ping, an agent's transaction — all of it is a small write from a mid-range Android on mobile data. Small writes are exactly the workload that hates a long path.

There is no cloud region near Tanzania

Amazon's African region is Cape Town and Microsoft's is in South Africa. A Tanzanian organisation on a global cloud is running in another country, with the compute a continent away from the people generating the data. Managed Databases at launch is a database in Tanzania rather than near it.

Payments

It will bill the way everything else on your account bills

Nothing bills until the service opens. When it does, a managed database joins the same Tanzanian account, the same shilling invoice and the same methods as the compute you already run. Tanzanian mobile money is a genuine four-way market — TCRA's March 2026 count puts M-Pesa, operated here by Vodacom Tanzania under its own regulator, at 40.97% of registered accounts, against 80.98 million accounts and 1.99 billion transactions in a single quarter — and a page that assumes one wallet is describing somewhere else.

M-Pesa

A supported method for Tanzanian customers, in shillings. TZS 29,160 on the launch price list is TZS 29,160 on the invoice: nothing converts, no international transaction appears on the statement, and no bank adds a foreign-transaction fee. VAT at 18% is calculated and shown at checkout.

Bank transfer

The rail a Tanzanian business or programme office reaches for on anything sizeable, and the one a grant line expects. A production database with a replica, or a year taken up front at ten months for twelve, is a transfer with a reference your accounts team can reconcile rather than a card charge somebody explains at month end.

Card

Visa and Mastercard, charged in shillings. Tanzanian card use runs heavily through ATMs rather than online checkouts, so the card is here for the finance teams that prefer one — not because it is what this market is expected to use.

Payment methods for Tanzania are M-Pesa, bank transfer and card, all in TZS. Displayed prices exclude VAT; 18% is calculated and shown separately at checkout.

The platform

Everything a production database needs

High availability, backups, security, and observability come wired in — so day two looks like day one.

Five engines

PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0/8.1, MongoDB 6/7, Redis 6.2/7, and MariaDB 10.11/11 — your choice.

Multi-AZ high availability

Synchronous standbys across zones with automatic failover in under 60 seconds and zero data loss.

Automated backups & PITR

Daily backups plus continuous archiving — restore to any second within the last 35 days.

Read replicas

Add up to five read replicas with sub-second lag to scale reads and offload analytics.

Encryption everywhere

AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, on by default for every instance.

VPC isolation

Private by default — databases live inside your VPC, reachable only from your own services.

Connection pooling

Built-in PgBouncer and ProxySQL keep thousands of client connections efficient and stable.

Performance insights

Slow-query analytics and live metrics surface the queries that need your attention.

Automated patching

Minor versions and security fixes applied during the maintenance window you choose.

Regions

tz-1a is home. Nairobi and Lagos are on the same account.

Deploy in Dar es Salaam and your data stays in Tanzania, in the same city as most of the people using it. ke-1a in Nairobi and ng-1a in Lagos are one API call away on the same console and the same shilling bill, so a standby or an offsite copy is a line in a config file rather than a supplier to onboard. Typical in-metro round trips are around 6 ms in Dar es Salaam, ~2 ms in Nairobi and ~4 ms in Lagos.

Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Internet eXchange has run there since 2003 as a project of TISPA, the Tanzanian ISP association; PeeringDB records 32 networks and 798G of connected capacity there, with Akamai, Meta, Cloudflare and TTCL among them, and no fee to join. The point of a local exchange is a plain one: a packet from one Tanzanian network to another changes hands in the city, instead of being hauled to Europe and back to travel four kilometres.

International capacity comes ashore in the same city: SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS land at Dar es Salaam, a named landing point on 2Africa as well. Inland, the National ICT Broadband Backbone carries it onward — government fibre managed by TTCL, 13,820 km laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, reaching every region and crossing into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. One origin in Dar es Salaam therefore has a real answer for a user in Mwanza, a site office outside Geita and a clearing agent at Tunduma.

TCRA's count for the quarter ending March 2026 tells you who is at the other end: Vodacom 36.19 million subscriptions, Yas 31.85 million, Airtel Tanzania 23.75 million, Halotel 18.32 million, against 58.9 million internet subscriptions nationally, roughly 99% of them mobile wireless. The largest reaches under a third of the country: no carrier arrangement covers a Tanzanian audience, and being inside Tanzania covers all of them at once.

Live

Tanzania

Dar es Salaam

~6 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania

Live

Kenya

Nairobi

~2 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya

Live

Nigeria

Lagos

~4 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria

Live

Uganda

Kampala

~3 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda

Expansion zonesSouth Africa · za-1aGhana · gh-1a

Use cases

Built for what you're building

Web & mobile backends

Managed PostgreSQL or MySQL that scales with you, so your app team never babysits a database.

E-commerce

Read replicas and connection pooling absorb traffic spikes without dropping a single order.

Caching & sessions

Managed Redis with sub-millisecond latency for sessions, queues, and hot data.

Content management

Run WordPress, Drupal, and custom apps on managed MySQL or PostgreSQL, kept patched and backed up.

How it works

From zero to database in three steps

1

Pick engine & size

Choose your engine, version, and instance size — from Small to XLarge.

2

Connect

Grab the connection string and connect — private by default, inside your VPC.

3

We keep it healthy

Backups, patching, failover, and monitoring — all handled, day and night.

Uptime SLA

99.9%

  • When hardware fails
  • When the region is the risk
  • Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA

Support

A Tanzanian line, and a clock that already matches yours

Call +255 761 847 121. Tanzania is on East Africa Time all year with no daylight saving, so there is no drift to track and no arithmetic before you dial — business hours mean the same thing in March as in November. A ticket opened at the start of a Dar es Salaam morning lands inside a working day, rather than at the bottom of a queue that wakes up as yours is ending.

That match is worth the most at the moment you can least afford it. Month-end, last Friday, 16:40: the reconciliation job has stalled, the settlement file has not written, and the deadline is Monday. What you want then is an engineer who is awake and at work with your instance ID in front of them — a resize that needs a reboot window, a snapshot restored into a new instance, a routing question, a port that has stopped answering. Not a form, and not a five-hour wait for somebody's morning.

[email protected] takes the commercial half, and it is worth using before you order: your TIN and registered name as the TRA holds them, a purchase-order or grant code the invoice must carry, an annual invoice that fits the budget year. Migration planning and assistance come at no extra charge, from a rack in Frankfurt or from across town. Customer references are available under NDA.

Why Lineserve

Managed beats midnight maintenance

Running your own database on a VPS means backups you hope work, manual failovers, and patching at 2 a.m. This is the option where we do all of that for you.

CapabilityLineserveSelf-managed on a VPS
Backups & 35-day point-in-time recovery
Automatic failover across zones
Security patches applied for you
Read replicas in a click
Billing in TZS
Support in your timezone
Data stays in Tanzania

Tax & invoicing

Four sizes in shillings, and a receipt a Dar es Salaam finance team can file

The launch price list is four instance sizes. Small — 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 20 GB of SSD, up to 100 connections — opens at TZS 29,160 a month. Medium is 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 50 GB with 200 connections at TZS 58,320. Large is 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 100 GB of NVMe with 500 connections at TZS 116,640, and XLarge is 8 vCPU, 16 GB and 200 GB of NVMe with 1,000 connections at TZS 233,280. Those are Tanzanian figures from a Tanzanian price list, which is what lets a programme budget survive contact with November.

That currency point is not decoration here. Tanzania made it an offence to quote or accept foreign currency for domestic transactions, through the Finance Act 2024 and GN 198 of 2025 — which is why a shilling price list is the right way round for a Tanzanian buyer rather than a convenience bolted onto a dollar one. A figure your finance committee approved in March is the figure that clears in November, in a country running headline inflation of 3.6%.

Then the mechanics of the invoice, which is the part an overseas provider cannot help with. Mainland VAT is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority and applying to digital and electronic services; Zanzibar administers its own on digital services through the Zanzibar Revenue Authority. Prices exclude VAT and the tax is calculated and shown separately at checkout. Tanzania is unusually exact about what a claimable receipt looks like: mainland suppliers over the TZS 14 million threshold issue through an Electronic Fiscal Device, and under EFD protocol 2.1 every invoice carries a verification code. A VAT-registered buyer keeps the same checklist whoever the supplier is — the registered name and identifiers, your TIN, a unique invoice number, the service and the period, the taxable value, and the VAT stated separately.

Ask before you order, not at year end

Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name exactly as the TRA holds it, and any purchase-order or grant code the invoice must carry, and it is on the document from the first billing run. If you buy against a grant line, ask for the annual invoice in the same message: ten months for twelve, one approval, one payment, one document for the file.

What the price includes at launch

Daily automated backups with a 35-day point-in-time recovery window, manual snapshots on demand, minor-version and security patching inside a maintenance window you choose, AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, slow-query analytics, and connection pooling through PgBouncer or ProxySQL. High-availability instances replicate across zones with automatic failover behind a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Prices exclude VAT and are indicative launch pricing rather than an amount payable today. Annual billing runs ten months for twelve on eligible plans — ask [email protected] or call +255 761 847 121 for a quotation against your budget year.

Data residency

In Tanzania, taking personal data out needs a permit first

Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 — Chapter 44 — has been in force since 1 May 2023, and the Personal Data Protection Commission has been fully operational since 3 April 2024. Controllers and processors alike register with the Commission before processing, five years at a time; the deadline for entities already trading expired on 30 April 2025. That regime is the reason a database is a different conversation here from anywhere else in the region.

The clause that decides where the database lives is the cross-border one. Personal data leaves Tanzania on a permit from the Commission, supported either by adequacy in the destination country or by safeguards evidenced in an international agreement, a bilateral agreement or contractual provisions. The Regulation 20 application asks for the applicant and the recipient, the data subjects, the categories of personal data, the purpose and duration of the transfer, the destination country and entity, and the security arrangements there. The Commission may approve, ask for more, or refuse — and it monitors the conditions afterwards.

That is prior authorisation, which is a different animal from a self-assessment. It is the difference between a task you can finish on your own timetable and one that finishes when a regulator says so. And it lands hardest on exactly the component this page is about, because the permit application asks what categories of personal data are being moved — a question you answer by describing a database schema, not a CDN configuration.

Hold the database in tz-1a and your data is held in Dar es Salaam, under Tanzanian law, where your regulator can see it — and the transfer question does not arise for what is in it. That is what data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act means in practice. The controller obligations stay yours, including registration, and they are lighter when the data never left.

The penalties are published

Administrative penalties under the Act run to TZS 100,000,000, and criminal fines reach TZS 5,000,000,000 for corporations. A regime that publishes numbers like those is a regime whose questions get asked in due diligence, in donor audits and in bank onboarding — usually of the database first.

A replica in Nairobi or Lagos is a transfer

ke-1a and ng-1a are one API call away on the same account, which makes standby copies easy to place carelessly. Putting personal data about Tanzanians into either is a transfer out of Tanzania and engages the permit conversation above. Plenty of workloads carry no such issue — application images, schema migrations, logs stripped of personal data — so draw the line deliberately rather than by default.

Who runs here

The Tanzanian databases that belong in Dar es Salaam

Each of these is a workload where the data is the regulated part, the schema is somebody's whole operation, and the team running it has better things to do than restore a backup they have never tested.

NGOs and donor programmes

The heaviest single segment in the Tanzanian buyer mix — TANGO alone counts over 485 member organisations, and the large international programmes run country operations from Dar es Salaam. DHIS2 and other health and monitoring platforms, KoBoToolbox and ODK form servers taking submissions from field teams on mobile data, beneficiary registries, grant accounting on ERPNext or Odoo. The database holds personal data about beneficiaries, which puts it squarely inside the Commission's regime, and the budget runs on a grant year that annual billing can be made to match.

Financial services and fintech

Agent-banking backends, USSD gateways, KYC document stores, reconciliation and settlement jobs, reporting into the Bank of Tanzania. Sensitive personal data, audited invoices and a regulator who may ask where the records are held — this segment cares about every block on this page at once. A Large instance with a read replica for reporting is the usual shape, so the reconciliation run stops competing with the tellers.

Ports, transit and freight forwarding

Dar es Salaam is the transit gateway for six land-linked countries, and the Standard Gauge Railway is reshaping inland movement. Transport management and freight-forwarding systems, customs integration middleware, GPS and telematics ingest from truck fleets, container tracking portals refreshed all day by clients and drivers. Telematics is a steady, unglamorous stream of small writes — the workload that suffers most from a long path and benefits most from a managed engine that handles its own vacuum and its own backups.

ISPs, WISPs and network operators

RADIUS and AAA stores, provisioning and billing databases, NetFlow and monitoring back-ends, IPAM. These databases are meaningless outside the country they describe, and the people running them will read a traceroute before they read a page like this one. Small instances at TZS 29,160, several of them, close to the network they serve.

Mining and its contractors

Gold exports reached USD 4,968.4 million in 2025, up around 35.8%, and the hosting buyer is very often the service contractor rather than the mine. Site-to-cloud aggregation from remote operations on thin links, geological and survey data stores, contractor and HSE compliance systems, procurement portals. A database in Dar es Salaam keeps the upload path domestic all the way from the site.

Tourism and hospitality

2.29 million international arrivals and USD 3.9 billion in travel receipts in 2025, with Arusha and Zanzibar as the operational centres. Booking engines, channel managers, property management integrations, safari operator CRMs. The guests are mostly overseas, so the right shape is a database and origin in Dar es Salaam with a CDN in front — and the staff, the rates and the reservations desk, which touch the system every hour of the working day, are local.

Agriculture and agri-export

Coffee, tea, cashew, cloves, tobacco. Cooperative membership and payout systems, traceability records, warehouse receipt systems, buyer portals. The traffic tracks the harvest calendar rather than the working week, which makes vertical scaling into the season and back out of it the natural pattern — and makes a managed engine that takes its own backups worth more during the weeks nobody has a spare hour.

Agencies, ISVs and resellers

Dar es Salaam holds 66.5% of Tanzanian startups, clustered on the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road corridor. One managed database per client rather than one shared MySQL nobody dares upgrade. They buy every quarter and grow by adding instances rather than by changing supplier.

Customer references are available under NDA — ask [email protected] or call +255 761 847 121 and the team will arrange one against the sector you are buying for.

Migrating

What moving to this will look like at launch

From a database you run yourself on a VPS

This is where most Tanzanian teams are starting, and the data has the shortest distance to travel: it is already in Dar es Salaam. What changes is who carries the pager. Daily backups with a 35-day recovery window instead of a cron job written by someone who has since left. Security patching inside a window you choose instead of a Saturday. Automatic failover across zones instead of a manual promotion at 02:00. The data path is a dump and restore, or logical replication where the downtime budget is tight, and migration planning comes at no extra charge — worth mapping before the service opens rather than after.

From a Tanzania-branded product hosted elsewhere

Several products marketed for this country are served from Johannesburg or Europe with a Tanzanian name on the tin. That is a legitimate way to sell hosting, and it is your job to know which one you have bought, because it decides how far your queries travel and which country's law your beneficiary data sits under. One question settles it: which building is the database in, and in which country is that building? For tz-1a the answer is Dar es Salaam. Ask the same question everywhere else you are quoted.

Migration planning and assistance are included at no extra charge, whether you are coming from a rack in Frankfurt or from a VPS across town. Send the engine, the size and the acceptable downtime to [email protected].

FAQ

Questions, answered

We run the database engine for you — provisioning, backups, patching, monitoring, and failover. You create an instance, get a connection string, and focus on your application.

PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0 and 8.1, MongoDB 6.0 and 7.0, Redis 6.2 and 7.0, and MariaDB 10.11 and 11.0 — all with the same managed features.

HA instances replicate across availability zones. If the primary fails, an automatic failover promotes the standby — typically in under 60 seconds, with zero data loss — behind a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Daily automated backups are retained for 35 days with point-in-time recovery to any second in that window. You can also take manual snapshots whenever you like.

Up to five read-only copies of your primary that serve read queries, synced automatically with typically under a second of lag. Use them to scale read-heavy workloads without touching the primary.

Yes. Scale vertically to a larger size within a brief maintenance window, or horizontally by adding read replicas with no downtime at all.

Yes. AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, with platform-managed keys or your own via KMS.

Instances live in a private network with no public access by default. Reach them through security groups and database users, or peer your VPC and connect over VPN from on-premises.

Standard tools work directly — pg_dump and mysqldump for one-shot moves, or logical and binary-log replication for near-zero-downtime migrations. Our team helps plan the move at no charge.

The service is in build and not open for orders. Rather than publish a date that moves, we tell the waitlist directly — email [email protected] or call +255 761 847 121 with the engine and size you have in mind and you will hear when the first release is ready.

Not yet — there is no orderable instance today. What you can do now is size the workload with us, get launch pricing in writing against your account, and be in the first group given access. Cloud servers and VPS in tz-1a are live today if you need capacity in Dar es Salaam before then.

In tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region — the same region already running cloud servers, VPS, dedicated hardware and object storage. The instance and its storage are created there and stay there unless you move them yourself.

The launch price list runs from TZS 29,160 a month for Small (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, 100 connections) through TZS 58,320 for Medium and TZS 116,640 for Large to TZS 233,280 for XLarge (8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe, 1,000 connections). Prices exclude VAT.

No. Those figures are indicative launch pricing and nothing bills until the service opens. If your budget year needs a number sooner, ask [email protected] for a written quotation against your account.

Yes. Tanzanian customers pay by M-Pesa, bank transfer or card, all in TZS, and a managed database will bill on the same account and the same methods as the compute you already run. M-Pesa in Tanzania is operated by Vodacom Tanzania — a separate deployment from the Kenyan one, with its own merchant products.

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.

Send [email protected] your TIN and your registered name as the TRA holds it before you order, with any purchase-order or grant reference, and it appears from the first billing run. Tanzanian input-VAT recovery turns on the receipt carrying the right identifiers and a verification code under EFD protocol 2.1, so it is worth five minutes up front.

PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0 and 8.1, MongoDB 6.0 and 7.0, Redis 6.2 and 7.0, and MariaDB 10.11 and 11.0 — all with the same managed features rather than a tier per engine.

HA instances replicate across availability zones. If the primary fails, an automatic failover promotes the standby — typically in under 60 seconds, with zero data loss — behind a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Daily automated backups retained for 35 days with point-in-time recovery to any second inside that window, plus manual snapshots whenever you want one. Restore one into a new instance on a quiet Tuesday and time it — that number belongs in your recovery plan.

Yes. Data in tz-1a is held in Dar es Salaam and is not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act.

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 data held in Dar es Salaam. Your own obligations as a controller, including registration, are unchanged.

Yes, on the same account and API. Treat personal data carefully when you do: a copy in ke-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Tanzania under the PDPA. Backups of non-personal data, application images and schema migrations raise no such question.

Yes, at no extra charge, and the planning is better done before launch than after. Standard tools work directly — pg_dump and mysqldump for a one-shot move, logical or binary-log replication where downtime is tight. Send the engine, the size and where it runs today to [email protected].

Email [email protected], call +255 761 847 121, or use the contact form, with the engine, the rough size and what the database holds. No card, no commitment — it puts you in the first group given access and gets launch pricing written against your account.

Production databases, minus the ops

Managed Databases are launching soon. Talk to us to reserve early access and pricing in your local currency, with no card to start.

Launching soon · 99.99% uptime SLA · Billed in TZS