Multi-service telecoms operator, Orange and Chinese technology giant, Huawei, have teamed up to launch Huawei Cloud services in Egypt.

Huawei Cloud will roll out cloud computing services in the country, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) in partnership with Orange.

Orange and Huawei previously launched the Orange Business Cloud, a collaborative cloud computing offering for businesses in Egypt, in 2020.

This latest agreement is an extension of that launch, and customers will be able to access cloud computing services via the Huawei Cloud platform and Orange Business Cloud, however subject to local data sovereignty laws.

Chief Business Officer at Orange Egypt, said: “Orange’s latest partnership with Huawei comes in line with the renewal of the current agreement between the two parties in providing Orange Business Cloud solutions, which has been a great success in the market where Orange Egypt was awarded the ‘Best Regional Cloud Services Provider Award for 2022.’”

He continued “Orange Solutions has proudly helped many government institutions, and international and local companies in their digital transformation journey and optimally employ and manage IT resources, which contributed to strengthening our position in the Egyptian market, as a leading provider of advanced and integrated technology services.”

At the time of Orange and Huawei’s 2020 agreement, Orange Business Cloud was set to be hosted in the telco’s Alexandria data center which was simultaneously inaugurated. The company also has a data center in Cairo.

The growing demand for cloud computing services in Africa has attracted intensified investment from industry behemoths such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.