Setting up, scaling, and maintaining production-grade DHIS2 infrastructure usually requires 1 to 4 weeks of manual server management, custom backup scripts, and risky version upgrades.
To help health teams, implementers, and ministries skip the infrastructure overhead and focus purely on health data, we created yalim.cloud—a fully managed, zero-configuration DHIS2 cloud hosting platform.
What is yalim.cloud?
yalim.cloud is a managed cloud platform built specifically for public health contexts and resource-constrained environments. Powered by Kubernetes and a custom DHIS2 Operator, it automates the complete lifecycle of your DHIS2 instances through an intuitive web portal.
Key Features for Implementers
Instant Provisioning: Deploy a fully configured production stack (DHIS2, PostgreSQL, and Redis) with automatic SSL in under 3 minutes.
Automated Resilience: Daily automated S3 backups with 30-day retention and one-click database restore.
Managed Upgrades: Upgrade DHIS2 releases safely (supporting versions 2.38 through the latest) with built-in rollback capabilities.
One-Click Scaling: Adjust CPU, memory, storage, or database replicas directly from the management portal.
Digital Sovereignty: Built on open-source infrastructure without lock-in, ensuring public health data remains under your control.
Proven Uptime: Designed for high availability with a 99.9% uptime SLA, supporting major health systems including the Ministry of Health in Côte d’Ivoire.
Who is this built for?
Ministries of Health & NGOs: Free up internal technical staff from server maintenance and database administration.
Consultants & Trainers: Spin up isolated DHIS2 instances in minutes for demos, training sessions, or short-term projects.
HISP Groups & Grantees: Standardize hosting across multi-country implementations with transparent, predictable pricing.
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We invite the community to test the platform—you can start with a free evaluation tier without entering a credit card.
Explore the platform at yalim.cloud. We would love to get your technical feedback, answer questions about our Kubernetes architecture, and hear how we can better support your implementation workflows!
Congratulations and many thanks, it’s great to see this expansion in the range of hosting options available to national governments, NGOs, etc.
I suspect, however, that you may want to reconsider the word “sovereign” in the title of your offering. It looks like you’re using AWS servers, which do not meet the definition of digital sovereignty on two counts:
For most countries, national AWS hosting options won’t be available - they would have their servers hosted on regional AWS servers (ie the data will physically sit in another country).
Because Amazon is a US-based company, it’s subject to US laws, and this overrides national laws - for example, the US government could order the servers switched off as part of a package of sanctions, or could even order Amazon to provide it with access to those servers.
Please forgive me if I’ve misunderstood your setup (eg if you’re in fact planning on hosting servers in each country?), but if not, then it might be prudent to remove the word “sovereign” from your offering.
Having said all of this, it’s important to note that all other DHIS2 cloud-hosting services experience the same “sovereignty” limitations, so this does not in any way detract from your offering. On the contrary, it’s great to see how simple and easy-to-use your platform is, and that you’re using a modern, best-practice server management architecture. I wish you every success with this initiative.
Thank you so much for the kind words and the warm welcome! We really appreciate your support and the excellent point you raised.
You are absolutely right that digital sovereignty, data localization, and jurisdictional control are major concerns for Ministries of Health and national governments. However, I want to clarify our infrastructure setup: we actually do not use AWS.
We specifically built YaLIM Cloud to bypass the exact sovereignty and lock-in limitations you mentioned. Here is how our architecture handles it:
Multi-Continent K8s & Edge Computing: Our platform runs on a multi-continent Kubernetes (K8s) cluster that leverages edge computing rather than relying on centralized Big Tech data centers.
On-Premises Expansion: We designed YaLIM Cloud to seamlessly expand to a country’s own on-premises servers or local data centers.
Topology-Enabled DHIS2-Operator: Our custom DHIS2-operator is topology-aware. This means we can configure it to schedule and deploy a specific DHIS2 instance strictly on a dedicated server or within a specific localized region.
Ultimately, if a Ministry of Health requires their data to physically sit within their own borders and remain entirely under their national jurisdiction, our architecture allows their DHIS2 instances to be deployed exactly there—all while they still get to enjoy the automated deployment, backups, and management of the YaLIM Cloud portal.
Thank you again for raising this! It is a critical topic in the DHIS2 community, and this gives us a great opportunity to clarify how our platform works under the hood.
Many thanks for all of this detail - and please forgive my assumption that you were using AWS infrastructure (I based that on the “S3 backups”, but from the sound of it you’re using your own S3 infrastructure).
If you’re able to configure your cluster so that a DHIS2 instance uses only national servers, then you have indeed resolved the sovereignty concerns I was raising - and it means you’re able to provide a very attractive combination of automated DHIS2 management and national hosting.
Just out of interest, where is your company registered, and to which country’s laws is it subject?
Dear Sam,
Thank you for your patience while my response is awaiting moderator approval to be visible.
Looking forward for this very important discussion.
No worries at all regarding the AWS assumption! You are completely right that “S3” usually implies AWS, but we use an S3-compatible distributed storage architecture that doesn’t rely on Amazon’s servers.
You raise a great point about company registration and the laws under which a service operates when discussing sovereignty. However, does true sovereignty mean every country must only buy services from companies operating under its own borders and jurisdiction, using only local resources?
I believe true digital sovereignty is fundamentally about empowerment. It means giving organizations full, unhindered control over their digital solutions and data, no matter who the provider is. It means removing crippling complexity so that managing Digital Public Goods (DPGs) is accessible, keeping costs sustainable, and ensuring the friction to move data or infrastructure is minimal.
This is exactly the gap YaLIM Cloud was built to bridge. We empower organizations by radically lowering the technical barrier required to deploy and manage a DHIS2 instance. Instead of relying on expensive external services or rare technical expertise, we provide:
Simplified Administration: Automated handling of server compliance, top-tier security, and reliability.
Total Access: Direct and easy access to your underlying infrastructure.
Data Portability: The frictionless ability to download, restore, and truly own your data changes.
Zero Vendor Lock-in: The freedom and ease to change your infrastructure provider whenever you need to.
We need to foster health systems that are resilient, open, and truly locally governable. By making the infrastructure accessible and manageable, we can ensure that digital sovereignty is a reality for everyone, not just an expensive service for a few.
Finally, to answer your question about registration: YaLIM Cloud is a service provided by YaLIM LLC (registered in the US) in partnership with HISP Côte d’Ivoire (registered in Côte d’Ivoire), as you can see in the attached DAC2025 Poster HISPCI-YaLIM-VF.jpg document. This partnership allows us to combine global tech standards with deep, localized DHIS2 expertise and governance.
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I wish you every success with this initiative. 
