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. >>