Comment by toast0

What is your path towards 'resolving' these issues?

I've done some mapping while comparing turn servers my org hosted on cloud vms vs a commercial offering, and it's pretty easy to find very different routing from point A to point B, but sometimes it's pretty clearly that not every transit network has access to every submarine cable, so traffic from say Brazil to South Africa might go from Brazil directly to Africa, or it might go to Florida, then Europe, then Africa. It'd be nice to take a more direct route, but maybe the Brazil -> Africa hop doesn't transit all the way, so BGP prefers the scenic route as it has a shorter AS path.

I didn't have any leverage to motivate routing changes though, so other than saying hmm, that's interesting, there wasn't much to do about it.