I have one and it still sucks. I ordered it after the one I bought on Amazon kind of sucked thinking the L1T would be better and it was worse than the Amazon one.
I've worked with quite a few ISPs and exchanges. I haven't set up port mirrors for the NSA but I have setup temporary mirrors for the FBI upon request.
IaaS is mostly like this already. There are some things where it’s not used like VMs which serverless tries to solve. Additionally people tend to waste tons of resources with IaaS because they don’t scale on usage.