South Africa’s fintech industry is in a high-growth phase, but rapid scaling can expose cracks in cloud strategy. In working with local fintech companies, Kinetic Skunk has identified five recurring mistakes that slow growth, impact resilience and erode competitive edge.
One of the most costly errors is allowing cloud costs to spiral quietly. Idle resources, oversized compute instances and lack of spend visibility can turn an affordable monthly bill into a financial strain. Left unchecked, this can drain funds that would otherwise be invested in product development and market expansion.
But costs are just one part of the picture. Other common mistakes include:
- Believing you’re too small to be a cyber target.
- Scaling on legacy infrastructure.
- Treating disaster recovery as a checkbox exercise.
- Letting multicloud strategies become multi-chaos.
Each of these challenges has a clear path to resolution, but timing is critical. The longer they go unaddressed, the greater the risk to security, operational stability and profitability.
Want the full strategies, checklists and local fintech case studies?
Kinetic Skunk has published a detailed blog post and a free white paper, The South African Cloud Fintech Fix, with:
- Step-by-step remediation approaches for all five mistakes
- Architecture patterns for cost control and resilience
- POPIA-aware security recommendations
- Disaster recovery readiness checklists
- Governance frameworks for multicloud environments
Read the full blog and download the white paper here:
www.kineticskunk.io/five-cloud-mistakes
Registration is required to access the white paper.
“Fixing cloud mistakes isn’t just about cost savings, it’s about building the resilience and agility to compete in South Africa’s fast-moving fintech market.” Donovan Mulder, CEO, KineticSkunk.
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