Yes it's still possible to put your own physical machines in a datacentre. For example : https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/dedirack/ https://www.scaleway.com

Yes it's still possible to put your own physical machines in a datacentre. For example : https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/dedirack/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/dedirack/ I'm not sure you can say it's the cloud though. They are not hosting their database in the cloud like Amazon or Azure because no cloud provider offers such high performances at a comparable price. Actually I'm not even sure you can get a cloud VM with that many IOs, if you don't mind the pricing.