Re: Colo in Africa

[Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com>]

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.
> > >