Bingo On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 09:30, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@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 <sav...@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. > >> >
