Robi Axiata’s digital services subsidiary Axentec announced on Tuesday it has launched what it says is the first Tier-IV cloud platform fully hosted and operated in Bangladesh that promises data sovereignty for local enterprises.
The new Axentec Cloud service – which is purpose-built for industries such as banking, healthcare, logistics, e-commerce, and manufacturing – is hosted in Axentec’s Tier-IV data centre in Jashore Sheikh Haisna Software Technology Park, as well an additional hosting facility in Bhulta.
Axentec said the cloud service supports features such as auto scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to ensure uninterrupted service during peak usage, an enterprise-grace security stack, and an AI-ready platform with support for GPU workloads, cloud containers, and relational database services (RDS) to power AI, ML and IoT applications.
Axentec MD and CEO Adil Hossain Noble said the new cloud service empowers local enterprises with full data sovereignty, providing them with complete control over their information while remaining fully compliant with national data policies and eliminating the regulatory and operational challenges associated with international cloud platforms.
“For years, enterprises in Bangladesh have relied on foreign-hosted cloud platforms, which often raised concerns over data sovereignty, performance, compliance, and cost,” he said in a statement. “Axentec Cloud directly addresses these challenges. It is local, robust, and designed to support the country’s economic growth over the next decade.”
The cloud service provides another local perk in the form of local prepaid and enterprise billing with transparent BDT-based pricing to avoid forex headaches, Axentec saod.
Axentec’s Tier-IV data center was officially launched in February 2024, a month after Axentec began operations as a spinoff from Robi’s ICT services subsidiary Reddot Digital.
