I'll be totally honest, I hadn't heard of Outposts till you mentioned it, but from my quick glance I'd say there's definitely potential in it, but I don't think it fits our use case particularly well.
One of the challenges for us is, to be honest, we're rather spoiled having run exclusively off-the-shelf open-source tech on our own hardware. It's difficult to start paying per million DB queries, for example, when we've been paying a flat rate of $X/mo for the past 7 years. On top of that, our team is very comfortable operating and managing these services in-house, and while it would free them up to focus more on dev tasks, it's a tiny gain compared to the cost increase of moving to SaaS model.
Having said that, though, I'm definitely going to look into Outposts more since it seems much more usable than full-cloud, so thanks for bringing it to my attention!
One of the challenges for us is, to be honest, we're rather spoiled having run exclusively off-the-shelf open-source tech on our own hardware. It's difficult to start paying per million DB queries, for example, when we've been paying a flat rate of $X/mo for the past 7 years. On top of that, our team is very comfortable operating and managing these services in-house, and while it would free them up to focus more on dev tasks, it's a tiny gain compared to the cost increase of moving to SaaS model.
Having said that, though, I'm definitely going to look into Outposts more since it seems much more usable than full-cloud, so thanks for bringing it to my attention!