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Outposts is certainly not a cheap solution, a dev rack with one m5.24xl is $124K, a similarly configured Dell server (but without the rack or AWS management) is less than half that price.

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/pricing/

I didn't calculate to see if the bigger racks are more cost effective, but I'm guessing not if 5 m5.24xlarge, 4 c5.24xlarge, 3 r5.24xlarge costs $690K.

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The ability to lift and shift existing AWS automation tools to on-prem workloads is more the worth the money. At a lot of organizations on-prem servers are heavily controlled by teams that have no interest in automation or quick provisioning.

Being able to stick one of these into a data center and get full access to a significant number of AWS services while being able to tell security and others that certain data isn’t in the cloud is priceless. People overlook the cost savings of being able to turn your Devs and DevOps teams loose on-prem and no longer be blocked by system admins who have no desire to help you increase your development velocity.

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