Last year, Amazon rolled out AWS Direct Connect, which lets you connect your physical servers via a low-latency network pipe directly to AWS. This seems a perfect solution for building a hybrid cloud - e.g. if your database server needs more horsepower than Postgres-on-EC2 can yield. But the Direct Connect marketing is (naturally) geared toward enterprises with a presence at Equinix, Level 3, etc.
It seems to me that there must be resellers with existing cages at these data centers where I could rent a single unmanaged server. But, of course, resellers don't tend to advertise which data center they're colo'd in.
How can I go about finding Direct Connect-capable, unmanaged server resellers? I'm looking specifically at US-East in Northern VA.
"Complete the AWS Direct Connect interest form indicating your choices. If you don’t already have infrastructure at your selected AWS Direct Connect location, you may optionally indicate on the form that you would like to be contacted by an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider."
The key point here is "If you don’t already have infrastructure" and "contacted by an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider". Now it's true that some of these companies may not want to work with someone who is only going to be hosting a server or two. In my experience, when dealing with these larger companies, you can get a referral to a reseller/affiliate if they can't (or won't) help you directly.