S3-Compatible Object Storage in Nigeria

There's no egress bill. Data transfer in and out — and API requests — are all free. You only pay for what you store, so serving your own files never triggers a surprise charge.

Objects are stored redundantly and encrypted at rest. Availability is backed by a 99.9% SLA. See the durability section for the specifics of the redundancy in your region.

Yes. Issue scoped access keys, set bucket policies, and generate presigned URLs for temporary, single-object access without sharing keys.

Yes. Enable static website hosting on a bucket to serve a static site or SPA directly, with no server to run.

Yes. Because we're S3-compatible, tools like rclone move data across directly. Our team will help you plan and run the migration at no charge.

You can create multiple buckets per account, and object sizes follow standard S3 multipart limits. Need a higher account limit? Just ask.

In ng-1a, our Lagos region. Objects written to ng-1a.s3.lineserve.net are held in Nigeria and stay there unless you copy them somewhere else.

Yes. Set the endpoint to https://ng-1a.s3.lineserve.net and keep your code, your scripts and your SDK. The API is S3-compatible, so the endpoint URL is the only thing that changes.

The rate is tiered on total stored volume: NGN 93.71 per GB per month up to 1 TB, NGN 80.33 up to 5 TB, NGN 66.94 up to 10 TB, and NGN 53.55 above 10 TB on a custom quote. Crossing a tier lowers the rate on the whole volume, and billing runs on average monthly usage. Prices exclude VAT.

Nothing. Transfer in, transfer out and API requests are free at every tier — you pay for what you store, and reading your own objects back is not a metered line.

No — displayed prices exclude VAT, and Nigerian VAT of 7.5% is calculated and shown separately at checkout.

By bank transfer or card, in Naira. A small monthly storage line sits comfortably on either; teams taking terabytes or paying annually generally settle by transfer.

No. It settles in Naira inside Nigeria, by card or bank transfer, so the international spending cap a Nigerian bank sets on a Naira card is untouched by it. The distinction sharpens as the archive grows: an overseas bucket takes a wider slice of that cap every year, while a Lagos bucket takes none of it at any size.

Yes. Objects in ng-1a are held in Lagos and are not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA).

For data that stays in Nigeria, yes — section 41 governs transfers out of the country, and that question does not arise for objects held in Lagos. Your own obligations as a controller, including registration with the Commission where section 44 applies to you, are unchanged.

The circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027, and it places that obligation on CBN-licensed participants. ng-1a is in Lagos, so objects stored there are stored in Nigeria. Whether your overall arrangement meets the directive is a question for you and your counsel — Lineserve supplies the location.

Yes — ng-1a in Lagos, ke-1a in Nairobi and tz-1a in Dar es Salaam are live with their own S3 endpoints on one account. Make the call deliberately for personal data: a copy in another country is a transfer out of Nigeria under section 41, and CBN-scoped data carries its own position. Build artefacts, package mirrors and logs without personal data raise no such question.

Objects are encrypted at rest by default and every request is TLS-encrypted in transit. Access is controlled with scoped access keys and bucket policies, and presigned URLs give time-limited access to a single object without sharing a key.

Enable versioning on the bucket and object history is kept, so an overwrite or a delete is recoverable. Lifecycle rules handle the other direction — automatic expiry or transition per bucket, so retention happens by policy rather than by somebody remembering.

Yes. Enable static website hosting to serve a static site or SPA from the bucket, or use presigned URLs for time-limited access to individual objects. With transfer free, serving public media from a bucket is a fixed cost rather than a traffic-dependent one — which is the whole argument through a Nigerian fourth quarter.

Yes, with a CDN in front of it. That is the standard shape for anyone selling to a diaspora or an export audience: the origin keeps your records and masters in Nigeria and answers the residency question, and the cache handles the distance.

Yes, and it is the most common use of it. Nightly database dumps, rclone backups off a VPS or a dedicated server, snapshots and archives — written to a bucket in the same region as the machine, over private networking, with no transfer charge in either direction.

Possibly. A Nigerian withholding agent files a monthly electronic schedule carrying each supplier's TIN, address, the nature of the transaction, the tax deducted and the invoice number, so your finance team will want the supplier details on file from the start. The applicable rate turns on the service and on the supplier's residence — Lineserve invoices Nigeria from LINESERVE, INC. — so take it to your tax adviser and copy [email protected] so the invoicing matches how you remit.

Through [email protected] and the ticket system on your account. Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving — two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.