[steveklabnik]

I wrote this in the thread last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324

[outsb]

Thanks. It seems extremely reminiscent of e.g. the Cobalt RaQ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ ), but maybe "AWS Outposts for the rest of us" might be a more suitable contemporary parallel