Liquid C2 has announced a Google Cloud partnership through its Cloudmania business in Kenya, giving local technology resellers and service providers access to Google’s cloud services alongside training and skills development. Announced in Nairobi on 3rd November 2026, the agreement targets the companies that help Kenyan businesses choose, install and manage their technology.

Liquid C2 is the cloud and cybersecurity business within Cassava Technologies, the technology group that also includes Liquid Intelligent Technologies. Cloudmania is its distribution business: it connects technology providers with the local partners that sell services to customers. For a Kenyan business, the intended benefit is being able to buy Google Cloud services with support from an IT partner it already works with.

Cloud computing lets businesses rent computing capacity and storage over the internet, with resources that can grow or shrink as requirements change. Google Cloud is Google’s collection of these services. A business can use rented infrastructure to run applications without buying and maintaining all the physical servers itself, although it still needs someone to configure the services and manage its use of them.

That is where the partners targeted by this agreement come in. Resellers sell technology services to customers. Managed service providers, or MSPs, take on continuing responsibility for customers’ IT systems, while system integrators connect different technologies so they work together. Cloudmania’s role is to help these businesses add Google Cloud to what they can sell and support.

Liquid C2 says the partnership creates opportunities for recurring revenue through customers’ cloud consumption. That gives a technology company a continuing commercial relationship as customers use cloud services. The announcement does not disclose how that revenue is divided between the companies involved.

Cloudmania also has a marketplace where users can select and activate solutions themselves, a process known as self-provisioning. Liquid C2 says this simplifies the steps between choosing a service and delivering it to a customer. Alongside access to the services, partners are being promised training to develop the technical skills needed to support them.

For Google Cloud, our reading is that the arrangement expands its sales reach through Kenyan IT companies with existing customer relationships. For Cloudmania, it adds Google Cloud to the choices its Kenyan partners can take to customers. Liquid C2 already has Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services in its cloud portfolio, the competing cloud platforms from Microsoft and Amazon, so this sits within its approach of working with multiple cloud providers.

Liquid C2 and Google Cloud’s relationship predates this announcement. The companies announced an Africa partnership in November 2023. We also covered Liquid C2’s wider Google Cloud and Anthropic partnerships back in March 2024. Anthropic develops artificial intelligence models.

Liquid C2 subsequently announced Liquid G, a Google Cloud distribution programme delivered through Cloudmania, which its newsroom dates to 1st December 2025. The Kenyan announcement now puts local resellers and service providers at the centre of that distribution relationship. It announces access and support through partners, without announcing a new Google Cloud data centre in Kenya.

The commercial details still need attention. The release gives no prices, partner eligibility requirements or training timetable. It also does not specify the Google Cloud services available through the Kenyan arrangement, billing currency or support commitments. Although the earlier Liquid G announcement mentioned local-currency billing, the Kenyan release does not confirm KES billing terms.

Liquid C2 presents greater choice of consumption models as a way for businesses to manage cloud costs. There are no published savings figures in this announcement. Google’s own pricing guidance says charges vary by product and usage, and its calculator lets customers estimate the services they intend to run. A useful partner proposal should therefore separate the estimated cloud charges from the partner’s management fees, with the billing currency stated explicitly.

Cost control also needs a precise explanation. Google’s alerts-only budgets do not automatically stop usage or spending when a threshold is reached. For example, a business planning to spend the equivalent of KES 10,000 a month would still need spending controls beyond an alert to keep its bill within that amount. Google separately documents spend caps for supported services, so a business should ask its partner which controls apply to the services it is buying and who acts on an alert.

That gives Kenyan IT partners a concrete way to demonstrate the value of local support: explain the bill and take responsibility for managing the agreed services. For customers, the announcement creates another route to Google Cloud, but the proposal still needs to show what that route costs and what happens when usage exceeds the plan.