On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:57 PM Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog@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.