Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 15:28:30 UTC 2019

Isn't the OP really asking here (not to have their selection of
platform wrangled..):
  "Where should I target my search: ZA only? is there anywhere else
worth dropping my request?"

and:
  "Are there likely providers of solid colo aside from
seacom/tinka-net or workonline/ben-net ?"

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:12 AM Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to it now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-(
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> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-south-africa/
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> 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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