On-prem native AWS services

Product page link: https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

From the FAQ: Q: Which AWS services do Outposts support?

A: Customers can provision Amazon EC2 instances and EBS volumes locally on an Outpost. At launch or in the months after, we plan to add services like RDS, ECS, EKS, SageMaker, EMR. Like today, customers can use Private Link gateway endpoints to privately connect their VPC resources to regional AWS services such as Amazon S3 and DynamoDB.

Curious to see prices.

So Amazon is adding house-arrest as an alternative to their prison-style lock-in?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18554318

This handily solves an issue with one of my clients - they wanted to make sure they could deploy their SaaS app on-prem if a customer asked for it, so had been avoiding going all in on AWS-specific services. Bet the pricing is "if you have to ask it's too much" but I guess we'll see.

So could you theoretically franchise an AWS Region with this?

Looks like AzureStack competitor? I’ve never seen someone adopt AzureStack either though.