Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 15:08:58 UTC 2019

My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to it
now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-(

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-south-africa/

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:02 PM Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:57 PM Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> wrote:
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>> The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a
>> long way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances
>> in AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps.
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>> Just just use the South Africa AWS region.
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> ^^ You had me for a second there.  AWS ain't operational yet in South
> Africa.  Sometime 2020/2021 only.
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