Have Outposts fixed their "always-on, lose connectivity, lose your outpost" problem that they had when I first asked about them? Can they scale down to "I need

Have Outposts fixed their "always-on, lose connectivity, lose your outpost" problem that they had when I first asked about them? Can they scale down to "I need to spin up an S3 thing for local testing" for the cost of the storage and CPU? Am I locked into a multi-year agreement, or can I just go and throw it away in a month and stop paying?