The $10m Engineering Problem
340 VMs is maybe at most, 2 racks of equipment.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.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.So 500k capex plus 18k per month. And how much are they paying AWS?