That makes sense- I think part of the reason such types of databases are well suited to cloud operations is the guaranteed throughput of the cloud providers own

That makes sense- I think part of the reason such types of databases are well suited to cloud operations is the guaranteed throughput of the cloud providers own network backbone, which is almost impossible for any single "regular" organization to match, at least for the price. I think we are at a point where doing business without the cloud will become nearly (but not completely) impossible at huge scale with all these features. Thank you very much for your detailed answer and good luck with the continued rollout!