About Egypt
Egypt sits where the routes linking Europe, the Gulf, and East Africa converge, with subsea systems coming ashore on the Mediterranean coast, crossing the Suez corridor, and re-entering the water in the Red Sea. Cairo is the commercial anchor of that geography, the metro where regional transit is aggregated and onward delivery towards African audiences is arranged.
Zenlayer operates a single data center in Cairo, offering bare metal cloud (BMC) and IP transit from a facility certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The footprint is deliberately narrow. It exists so that teams can place compute and transit inside Egypt rather than serving Egyptian users from Europe or the Gulf.
That in-country position is the point of the market. Traffic terminated in Cairo does not have to make the subsea crossing to a European or Gulf metro and back for every session. Teams commonly pair Cairo with Zenlayer's other Middle East markets (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Qatar), using Egypt as the Africa-facing leg of a regional deployment while the broader product set is anchored further east.
Compute in Egypt
Cairo carries Zenlayer's bare metal cloud (BMC), giving teams dedicated single-tenant hardware inside Egypt with root-level control over the operating system and storage layout. Dedicated hardware suits this market because in-country capacity is scarce and performance has to stay predictable across a long shared international path.
Typical deployments include regional API endpoints for Egyptian and North African users, mobile and game backends serving domestic subscribers, and streaming origin nodes placed ahead of the subsea hops to Europe. Bare metal is the published compute product for Egypt, so smaller footprints are usually sized as a single node in Cairo and scaled by adding hardware rather than by fanning out across sites.
Enterprise hardware
Intel Xeon Scalable. Up to 384 GB RAM. NVMe and SSD storage tiers.
Premium network
100+ Tbps backbone with dynamic, latency-optimized routing.
Instant provisioning
Deploy via Terraform, REST API, or the point-and-click zenConsole.
Flexible billing
Hourly pay-as-you-go with discounts for longer commitments.
Networking in Egypt
IP transit is Zenlayer's network product in Cairo, delivering BGP-capable capacity in the metro where Egypt's international routes are commercially aggregated. From one port, traffic can head north across the Mediterranean into European networks or east through the Red Sea corridor towards the Gulf, so a single Egyptian presence faces three audience regions rather than one.
Cloud Connect and Cloud WAN are not currently published for Egypt, and neither is CDN nor public cloud. Enterprises that need dedicated hyperscaler on-ramps or private interconnection normally terminate them in a neighbouring Middle East market and extend into Cairo over transit, keeping the Egyptian leg simple and the interconnection complexity in a fully stacked metro.
IP Transit
Blended carrier routes tuned for the lowest real-world latency.
Cloud Connect
Private, dedicated links into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
Cloud WAN
Software-defined backbone spanning 290+ points of presence.
Edge protection
Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation with real-time traffic filtering.
Colocation in Egypt
Zenlayer's Egyptian inventory is a single data center in Cairo, certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. It is published for bare metal and IP transit, and colocation is not offered as a product in this market. Teams that need racks of their own in Egypt will be working with other providers, or placing their colocation footprint in one of Zenlayer's neighbouring Middle East markets instead.
For most Egyptian requirements this is a workable division of labour. Bare metal covers the case that actually drives an Egypt deployment, which is having compute and addressing inside the country rather than owning the sheet metal, and it gets there without the lead time of shipping and installing hardware into a single-site market.
Carrier-neutral
Access to 400+ carriers and major regional peering exchanges.
Flexible power
Standard and high-density rack configurations on request.
Secure access
Biometric entry, CCTV, and 24/7 dedicated remote hands.
Rapid turn-up
Cage-to-production cross-connects in days, not weeks.
Cities in Egypt
Data Centers in Egypt
1 totalCairo
Egypt's capital and the bridge between North African markets and Mediterranean subsea routes.
1 DC
Cairo
Egypt's capital and the bridge between North African markets and Mediterranean subsea routes.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AF-Cairo1(Telecom Egypt)CAI1 |  | ColoBMCIP Transit |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Egypt.
Where are Zenlayer's data centers located across Egypt?
<p>Zenlayer operates one data center in Egypt, located in Cairo and certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The site sits in the Cairo metro rather than at the coastal cable landings because Cairo is where regional transit is commercially aggregated, where the enterprise customer base is concentrated, and where onward routing towards Europe, the Gulf, and East Africa is arranged.</p>
What cloud and network services are available in Cairo?
<p>Cairo carries bare metal cloud (BMC) and IP transit. Colocation, CDN, Cloud Connect, Cloud WAN, and public cloud are not published for Egypt, so requirements that depend on them are normally delivered from a neighbouring Middle East market with the Egyptian leg carried over transit. The Cairo site is built around in-country compute and capacity rather than portfolio breadth.</p>
Why deploy in Cairo rather than another Middle East city?
<p>Cairo is chosen for audience proximity rather than product breadth. Workloads that have to terminate inside Egypt, whether for latency to Egyptian users or for data residency, belong in Cairo, while workloads that depend on private cloud on-ramps or colocation are usually anchored in a Gulf market and extended to Egyptian users over IP transit from there.</p>
How do Egypt's subsea cable landings affect routing performance?
<p>The cable systems linking Europe with the Gulf and Asia come ashore on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, cross the country overland, and re-enter the water in the Red Sea. Serving Egyptian users from a European city means every session makes that crossing twice, which adds latency and exposes traffic to congestion on a small number of shared systems. Terminating in Cairo removes both legs.</p>
What are Zenlayer's neighbouring markets to Egypt in the Middle East?
<p>Zenlayer's Middle East region also covers Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Qatar, with further reach into Kuwait, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Cairo reaches these markets eastwards through the Red Sea corridor, which makes Egypt a practical Africa-facing and Mediterranean-facing leg for a deployment already anchored in the Gulf.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Egypt
Talk with Zenlayer to design a Cairo deployment that pairs in-country bare metal with IP transit across the Suez corridor into Europe, the Gulf, and Africa.