Best of both, custom built private clouds across two datacenters via colocation. I'd recommend building your own servers and colocating them. You can get a ~50

Best of both, custom built private clouds across two datacenters via colocation. I'd recommend building your own servers and colocating them. You can get a ~50 ECU, 32GB ECC RAM, SSD, etc for about 1k. You can colo by the RU in most major cities, which typically runs around $99 per month. If you want any help, send me a line and I can walk you through it all. I not only this for my own company (~60 RUs of blades/traditional), but I also consult fairly often doing infrastructure for companies wanting to cut costs over things like AWS by 10x to 100x (yes, 100x happens sadly for them prior).