Addressing #2 and #3, a "hybrid cloud" architecture can include a site-to-site VPN or direct fiber connection to a cloud. In AWS, Direct Connect data transfer p

Addressing #2 and #3, a "hybrid cloud" architecture can include a site-to-site VPN or direct fiber connection to a cloud. In AWS, Direct Connect data transfer pricing effectively makes your on-prem DC or colocation facility into an availability zone in your AWS Region. Direct Connect is $0.02/GB egress (out of AWS) and free ingress (into AWS), which is a better deal than cross-AZ data transfer within the AWS Region. Cross-AZ within an AWS Region is effectively $0.02/GB in both directions. This way, you can run your big static workloads on-prem to save money, and run your fiddly dynamic workloads in AWS and continue to use S3. That said, if a hybrid cloud architecture is your plan and you desire a managed rack-at-a-time experience, AWS Outposts would seem to be the safer pick. They've been shipping for years and they have public pricing that you can look at. I'm not sure that Oxide specifically has an opening for customers who want to keep their cloud. I wish them luck. https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/pricing/