Currently, Outpost doesn’t provide any discounts over hosting the same workloads in the cloud, so it seems only useful if you can’t host in the public cloud. For now, they could easily be undercut and a solution like oxide has advantages.
But if outpost was nearly the same price as oxide, wouldn’t you always want access to the full AWS or GCP infrastructure and world class control plane versus something bespoke that only works in your own data center.
I think what Oxide has to bank on is that this isn’t a market that Google, Microsoft or AWS want to really compete in (e.g. it may require these companies to undercut themselves too much).
But if outpost was nearly the same price as oxide, wouldn’t you always want access to the full AWS or GCP infrastructure and world class control plane versus something bespoke that only works in your own data center.
I think what Oxide has to bank on is that this isn’t a market that Google, Microsoft or AWS want to really compete in (e.g. it may require these companies to undercut themselves too much).