Re: Colo in Africa

[Akshay Kumar via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

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.