Introducing AWS Outposts
Unlike the AWS Snow family of services, AWS Outposts require permanent, reliable network connectivity back to a parent region. This is because the control and management plane depend on the parent region to function properly. Another key difference is that the hardware involved is more like that seen in your on-premises data centers today. Similar environmental requirements to standard rackmount servers apply, unlike the highly ruggedized self-contained devices seen in the Snow family.
AWS Outposts provides fully managed compute, storage, and database services in a hybrid cloud deployment. A subset of these capabilities is offered locally for low-latency connectivity and local data processing, with the remainder offered via a dedicated link back to an AWS region. It is offered in two form factors – 1U or 2U Outposts servers and 42U Outposts racks.
An AWS Outposts rack deployment consists of up to 96 42U racks in your on-premises data center. While...
