The global hyperscaler, tailored to meet Africa’s needs, is here. The Africa Local Public Cloud (ALP Cloud), powered by Alibaba Cloud, is available in South Africa exclusively via BCX. This gives local enterprises access to a global leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, with all the benefits of a leading local provider.

With ALP Cloud, BCX delivers a sovereign cloud with local hosting and cloud services to support the need for data sovereignty, high availability and local support, and billing in ZAR to avoid the impact of international currency fluctuations.

What cloud services does Alibaba Cloud provide?

Alibaba Cloud provides robust, secure and highly available infrastructure that frees you up to redefine your business boundaries and reimagine your world of work.

Through our expert teams and partnerships with world-leading service providers, we offer Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, as well as a broad portfolio of industry solutions.

Solutions are custom-designed to be fit for purpose and align with your strategy and budget. Together with Alibaba Cloud, BCX will help you achieve the scalability, agility and availability you need. We provide superior security, connectivity, migration and modernisation as part of the package.

Benefit from global best-in-class capabilities

BCX ALP Cloud is the scalable, service-centric cloud experience for Africa, helping enterprises overcome common challenges such as high or unpredictable cloud costs, skills gaps, deployment complexity and data sovereignty.

ALP Cloud builds on the proud heritage of Alibaba Cloud, a trusted global leader providing more than 200 SaaS or business application services, with an extensive global network presence of over 85 availability zones across 28 regions.

Alibaba Cloud is the largest public cloud service provider in Asia and the third-largest public cloud service provider worldwide. Its reliable, secure infrastructure and powerful capabilities support some of the world’s largest enterprises. In Africa, it’s backed by BCX’s expert technical teams and consultants with deep industry-specific knowledge.

BCX knows African business needs. This is why we’ve designed ALP Cloud with sovereign cloud principles in mind, to be a local, secure and cost-effective cloud solution.

Predictable billing in ZAR

ALP Cloud services are billed in South African Rand, shielding customers from bill shock due to the fluctuating exchange rate experienced with many cloud providers. 

Securely in-country

ALP Cloud availability zones are deployed within South Africa’s borders, which addresses data sovereignty and data residency needs that are particularly critical for sectors such as finance and the public service.

With two data centres in Johannesburg, and plans for a third data centre in Cape Town and an additional disaster recovery centre in a neighbouring country, ALP cloud offers low latency, high performance and redundancy built in.

Flexible cloud to suit your use case

ALP cloud supports large-scale or ultra-large-scale deployments with a comprehensive suite of IaaS offerings, including cloud computing, storage, networking, security services, Data-recovery-as-a-Service and Backup-as-a-Service. With ALP Cloud, you get IaaS, PaaS, DRaaS, security, over 70 cloud-native services, and abundant commercial cases in full-stack products deployment.

ALP Cloud vertical solutions

Customer Class (High Touch)

SuperApp (mPaaS) – ALP Cloud mobile Platform as a Service (mPaaS) is a suite of cloud services that make developing, testing, deploying, and managing mobile applications more efficient and cost-effective. The platform provides a one-stop solution for mobile app lifecycle management, including app development, testing and operations. 

e-Commerce Solution (G-Mall) – Global-Mall (G-Mall) is an e-commerce platform solution for both B2B and B2C businesses. It includes an intelligent chatbot and enables omnichannel marketing, livestreaming, and personalised content recommendation.  

Global-Mall B2C enables clients to establish a B2C e-commerce platform under their own brand. The platform offers comprehensive functions including product management, order management, promotion management, and user management. It supports a direct sales model and a platform-based operational model.  

Global-Mall B2B supports the establishment of B2B e-commerce platforms for enterprise customers. This platform facilitates transactions between suppliers and purchasers, enabling businesses to conduct online sales. 

Energy Expert Solution (ESG) – BCX is committed to creating a sustainable future through technology innovation. Our ESG solution helps achieve high energy efficiency and carbon neutrality goals with comprehensive energy and emission management features. This helps you to plan your sustainability strategy in detail, and monitor and manage energy consumption and environmental impacts, in line with international standards. 

Electronic Signature Solution (eSignGlobal)

Exceptional local support 

With BCX behind it, ALP Cloud now provides Alibaba Cloud’s world-class services at competitive local prices, backed by expert on-demand, in-country technical support to reduce service lead times.  

BCX ALP Cloud Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, as well as our broad portfolio of industry solutions, are custom-designed to be fit for purpose and align with your strategy and budget.  

Together with Alibaba Cloud, BCX will help you achieve the scalability, agility and availability you need. We provide superior security, connectivity, digital strategy, maturity assessments, roadmaps, migration and modernisation services as part of the package. 

Why move to cloud?

Reimagine accessibility.

Drive your business’s growth with always-on, secure infrastructure that scales and flexes as you do, supporting change, growth and innovation.

Our services will help you gain agility, enhanced security and compliance, and simplified infrastructure management – with all the advantages of an OpEx rather than a CapEx model. 

Cloud solutions and infrastructure allow you to pay for what you use, with no over-provisioning, and always ensuring that your business tools are up to date with the latest versions. With all-cloud infrastructure, your business achieves secure continuity and always-on accessibility, wherever you and your team may be. And with Alibaba Cloud, you have expert skills at your disposal, the best infrastructure available, and the peace of mind that your business continuity and growth are supported.

• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Solutions

• Strong Regional Presence

• Global Support and Services

• Elastic and Scalable Services

• Security and Compliance

• Advanced AI and Big Data Capabilities

Why Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud operates 85 availability zones in 28 regions around the world, with more global regions set to follow. As the cloud computing arm and a business unit of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), Alibaba Group provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to help power and grow your business.