Bingo On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 09:30, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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@nanog.org> 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/
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:02 PM Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
wrote:
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.