Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 15:17:18 UTC 2019

On 16/07/2019 16:08, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote:
> 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/
> 

Azure does have regions in operation in South Africa [1]

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/global-infrastructure/services/?products=kubernetes-service,virtual-machines

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:02 PM Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org
> <mailto:savage at savage.za.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:57 PM Akshay Kumar via NANOG
>     <nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>> wrote:
> 
>         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.
> 
>         Just just use the South Africa AWS region.
> 
> 
>     ^^ You had me for a second there.  AWS ain't operational yet in
>     South Africa.  Sometime 2020/2021 only.
> 


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