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. > >