AWS Outposts

 

AWS Outposts Family

Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience

AWS Outposts Family overview

AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts solutions allow you to extend and run native AWS services on premises, and is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployments.

With AWS Outposts, you can run some AWS services locally and connect to a broad range of services available in the local AWS Region. Run applications and workloads on premises using familiar AWS services, tools, and APIs. Outposts supports workloads and devices requiring low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and application migration with local system interdependencies. 

Benefits

Run AWS Services on premises

Extend AWS compute, networking, security, and other services on premises for low latency, local data processing, and data residency needs.

Fully managed infrastructure

Reduce the time, resources, operational risk, and maintenance downtime required to manage IT infrastructure with a fully managed experience.

Truly consistent hybrid experience

Use the same hardware infrastructure, APIs, tools, and management controls available in the cloud to provide a truly consistent developer and IT operations experience. 

Feature comparison

	AWS Outposts rack	AWS Outposts servers
Form factors	The Outposts rack is 80 inches tall, 24 inches wide, and 48 inches deep. Inside are hosts, switches, a network patch panel, a power shelf, and blank panels.	The Outposts rack-mountable servers fit inside 19" width, EIA-310 cabinets. The 1U high server is 24” deep, and uses AWS Graviton2 processors. The 2U high server is 30” deep and uses 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Installation	AWS delivers Outposts racks fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. Racks are installed by AWS and simply need to be plugged into power and network.	AWS delivers Outposts servers directly to you, installed by either onsite personnel install or a 3rd-party vendor. Once connected to your network, AWS will remotely provision compute and storage resources.
Locally supported services	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EBS Snapshots, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elasticache, Amazon EMR, Application Load Balancer (ALB), CloudEndure, and VMware Cloud. Seamlessly extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts rack, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region.	Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS IoT Greengrass, or Amazon Sagemaker Edge Manager. Seamlessly extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts servers, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region.
Networking	• Includes integrated networking gear. • Supports Local Gateway, which requires Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over a routed network.	• Does not include integrated networking gear. • Supports a simplified network integration experience providing a local Layer 2 presence.
Power	• Supports three power configurations: 5 kVA, 10 kVA, or 15 kVA. The configuration of the power shelf depends on the total power draw of the Outpost capacity. • Centralized redundant power conversion unit and a direct current (DC) distribution system in the backplane handled by line mate connectors.	• Requires 1-2 kVA of power. • Supports standard alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power options.

Use cases

Low latency compute

Deliver high-quality gaming experiences for interactive applications, like real-time multiplayer games, to players all over the world. When the nearest public cloud servers are not close enough to meet single-digit millisecond latency requirements, AWS Outposts can help run business applications where you need them for manufacturing execution systems (MES), high-frequency trading, or medical diagnostics.

Data residency

Data sometimes needs to remain in a particular country, state, or municipality for regulatory, contractual, or information security reasons. This is often the case with financial services, healthcare, oil and gas, and other highly regulated industries. With AWS Outposts, you can control where your workloads run and where your data resides, with low-friction movement between cloud and edge locations to easily adapt to regulatory changes.

Migration and modernization

Legacy on-premises applications often have latency-sensitive system dependencies, making them difficult to migrate. AWS Outposts allows you to segment migrations into smaller pieces on premises, maintaining latency sensitive connectivity between application components until you are ready to migrate.

Local data processing

Process data locally for use cases such as data lakes and machine learning (ML) model training, or set up a consistent hybrid architecture to process local, difficult-to-migrate data sets with cost, size, or bandwidth constraints and move data to the cloud for long-term archival.