Autonomous system
AS37739 Abantu-Cloud
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Abantu Cloud Africa
cloud hosting nsp south-africa
Abantu-Cloud is operated by Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries cloud and network services, evidenced by the netname
ABANTUand the holder's identity as a cloud provider. - The AS announces 1536 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 84 observed neighbours. This ratio of limited address space to high peering density indicates a transit or network service provider role rather than a large access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of cloud infrastructure endpoints and data center services, consistent with the operator's business model of providing cloud VPS and hosting solutions in South Africa.
Notable
- Registrants are mixed:
Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltdholds the largest block, whileIntaweb (Pty) Ltd.andNCRYPTD LLChold other announced prefixes, suggesting leased space or historical acquisitions. - The inventory includes a /24 from the 23.147.0.0/16 range, which is distinct from the 102.x.x.x blocks, indicating a diverse address portfolio.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 8 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.11.141 |
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::936b:188 |
| Speed Internet Exchange | Dronten, Netherlands | 185.1.223.53 |
| InterIX Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:134::50 |
| Nine IX | Paris, France | 185.1.14.113 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.141 |
| EuroGIX | Strasbourg, France | 185.1.14.113 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.31.247 |
Transit providers
16 upstream, 12 downstream and 38 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS37739- Registry name
- ORG-ACAL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Abantu Cloud Africa (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2024-02-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37739
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 14 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS37739
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere