The cloud migration market in Egypt serves banking, telecommunications, public sector and energy buyers concentrated around Cairo, Smart Village, New Cairo, Alexandria and the New Administrative Capital. Cloud migration partners in Egypt run programmes that take customers from on-premises VMware and bare-metal estates onto Microsoft Azure UAE North, AWS Middle East (Bahrain), Oracle Cloud Cairo and Google Cloud Doha regions, with selective workloads kept inside local datacentres operated by Raya, Link and Etisalat Misr to satisfy data-residency reviews under Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020. TechVendorIndex tracks 14 providers actively delivering cloud migration engagements in Egypt, drawn from global hyperscaler partners, regional Egyptian systems integrators and specialist FinOps boutiques.
Cloud migration in Egypt covers assessment, refactoring, replatforming and FinOps for buyers running heterogeneous estates. Microsoft Azure is the dominant hyperscaler for regulated buyers because the UAE North region offers acceptable latency from Cairo and a familiar contractual posture for CBE-supervised institutions; AWS has won share among scale-up consumer-internet and fintech firms via the Bahrain region. Oracle Cloud has opened a Cairo public-cloud region, which is becoming a relevant choice for buyers under stricter residency interpretations from the Personal Data Protection Centre. Buyers in Egypt typically engage partners in this category for migration factories combining lift-and-shift for legacy AIX and Windows workloads with selective refactoring of Java and .NET applications, governed by EG-CERT baselines and CBE cybersecurity controls.
The 14 firms below are ranked by verified delivery presence in Egypt, with focus and rating drawn from TechVendorIndex editorial assessments. No vendor pays for placement.
Within the USD 5.8 billion Egyptian enterprise IT services market, cloud migration tracks slightly above the 8.4% headline growth figure and is the most active discipline in the country alongside SAP-led transformation. The five systemic Egyptian banks led by CIB, NBE and Banque Misr drive a disproportionate share of demand, followed by Vodafone Egypt, Etisalat Misr and Orange Egypt in telecommunications. Hyperscaler economics still favour out-of-country regions because AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Azure UAE North have richer service catalogues and lower latency to Gulf headquarters; the Oracle Cloud Cairo region is the only public-cloud region physically in Egypt and is being adopted selectively by regulated buyers wanting strict residency. Concentration risk is meaningful: roughly five large partners take the bulk of regulated programmes, and several of the local champions also run their parents' captive estates, which creates conflict-of-interest review work for procurement teams. Pricing for managed migration is typically 25 to 40 per cent below comparable Western European rates, and onshore Egyptian build teams are increasingly used as nearshore capacity by Gulf and EMEA buyers. Over the next 24 months expect tighter data-residency reads from the Personal Data Protection Centre, growth in FinOps engagements, and continued migration of SAP estates to RISE on Azure or AWS as ECC end-of-support approaches.
Use the following criteria to shortlist providers before issuing a formal request for proposal. Most procurement teams in Egypt weight references and operating-model fit more heavily than headline rate cards.
Most Egyptian migration programmes use a discovery-plus-wave model. Discovery is priced fixed-fee at EGP 1.5M to EGP 4M, with subsequent waves on time-and-materials or per-application unit pricing. Cairo-based architects blend with Alexandria and Smart Village build teams; some providers use Cairo as a nearshore base for Gulf programmes, which can push local rate cards upward.
Buyers should benchmark fully-loaded blended day rates against three regional references at comparable scope before contract signature, and require provider transparency on Azure and AWS marketplace rebates so partner economics are visible. Engage independent advisory support before signing multi-year contracts.
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