An Introduction to AWS Outposts
After prevailing over the initial hype cycle, the cloud has truly evolved as the de facto platform of choice to run IT services, by overcoming what seemed to be an insurmountable gap between customer premises and the cloud. There have been several attempts to bridge both these worlds.
The term hybrid was initially coined as a reference to solutions that purported to operate as a cloud would in the customer data center. Ever since then, several of these kinds of denominations in the Information Technology realm have evolved and consolidated into what is now referred to as the edge. Amazon Web Services (AWS) now delivers managed cloud infrastructure in the form of AWS Outposts, which lives in the very same edge.
This chapter explores the concept of the edge and then transitions into exploring the key concepts and terminology of AWS Outposts. Finally, we will wrap up with the use cases for this product.
In this chapter, you will cover the following:
- Identifying the edge space in the Information Technology domain
- Understanding the purpose of AWS Outposts
- Identifying how Outposts fits into the edge space
- Understanding what business problems Outposts solves
