The $10m Engineering Problem
340 VMs is maybe at most, 2 racks of equipment.<p>So figure 4 racks, 2 racks in each of 2 locations.  That's not even 500k in equipment. Telecoms run 'tandem' and that is good enough even for 911 infrastructure.<p>10gb of decent quality internet at each location is another 2x 5k per month. Power space etc. and remote hands is 2k x 4 racks is 8k per month.<p>So 500k capex plus 18k per month. And how much are they paying AWS?