AWS / Azure infrastructure
Gulf regions (Bahrain, UAE, Saudi). Multi-region, multi-AZ architectures.
Cloud services in Afghanistan — Gulf-region, on-prem, hybrid.
Cloud infrastructure and migration for Afghan organizations. AWS / Azure in Gulf regions for low-latency Afghan delivery, on-prem deployments when government compliance requires, hybrid for the common Afghan-context realities.
20 yrs
Enterprise IT delivery from Kabul
Multi-cloud
AWS / Azure / on-prem · Gulf-region delivery
ISO 27001
Certified operations + governance
Delivered from Kabul
Gulf-region, on-prem, hybrid — delivered by senior teams based in Kabul, governed under ISO 12207 and ISO 27001. Twenty years of enterprise delivery in Afghanistan, including the 500,000-employee national-government Odoo HR rollout and Jobs.af. Engagements run from our Kabul office with regional support in Dubai and India.
- 500,000-employee Odoo HR engagement for a national government
- Jobs.af — Afghanistan's largest job-hunting platform — built by NETLINKS
- Clients include Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Payments System, AKDN, World Bank, UNDP
Afghan cloud work is mostly about hybrid + Gulf-region architecture.
Afghan cloud realities are specific: international cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) don't have Afghan-region data centers, the closest regions are in the Gulf (Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia), Afghan connectivity to these regions is workable but variable, and certain regulated workloads (banking, government) require on-prem deployment for sovereignty or compliance reasons.
Our Afghan cloud practice covers: AWS deployments in Bahrain or UAE regions for low-latency Afghan delivery, Azure deployments in UAE region for Microsoft-ecosystem clients, on-prem deployments when sovereignty / compliance requires (data centers in Kabul or contracted facilities), and hybrid architectures combining cloud + on-prem for the typical Afghan-context use cases.
Pricing: managed cloud contracts $1K-$10K/month for small / mid-size Afghan organizations, $10K-$30K/month for enterprise / government clients with custom SLAs. Implementation and migration projects priced separately ($25-200K typical).
— Cloud scope
What we deliver.
Managed cloud
Monitoring, alerting, backup, patching, security ops — under your account or ours.
Compliance + security
ISO 27001 aligned operations. Audit-ready for donor and government reviews.
Migration + modernization
On-prem to cloud, cloud-to-cloud, modernization to containers / serverless.
Hybrid architectures
Cloud + on-prem combining where needed for Afghan operational / regulatory realities.
On-call senior SREs
Severity-1 response within SLA. Named on-call engineer per contract.
— Questions
Afghan cloud services — questions we hear.
Why no AWS or Azure region in Afghanistan?
Neither AWS nor Azure has an Afghan-region data center. Closest regions are in Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia. Most Afghan client workloads run from Bahrain or UAE — connectivity is workable, latency is acceptable for typical web / API workloads.
When should we run on-prem instead of cloud?
On-prem for: regulated banking workloads where Afghan sovereignty requires, government workloads with explicit on-prem mandates, workloads where Afghan connectivity to Gulf regions is materially constrained. For most other workloads, Gulf-region cloud works well.
Can you migrate from on-prem to cloud?
Yes — common engagement. Afghan organizations modernizing from on-prem to AWS / Azure typically run 6-12 month programs. We handle migration planning, target architecture, data migration, security configuration, and go-live.
Where is your team based?
NETLINKS Plaza, Street 6, Lane 3, Shar-e-naw, Kabul. Phone: 077-302-0101. Senior architects and engineers based in Kabul.
How do I get started?
30-min discovery → scoped proposal → engagement.
Scope Afghan cloud services Gulf-region or on-prem.
30-min discovery → cloud architecture proposal → managed-services contract.
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