Outposts Maintenance
Monitoring your Outposts is a critical administrative task. Outposts resources are finite, especially if you are used to the virtually unlimited capacity of an AWS Region. Customers can make the mistake of not planning the AWS Outposts capacity and run into an Insufficient Capacity error whenever it runs out of capacity to provision resources. Additionally, service link interruptions, as well as S3 and EBS (Elastic Block Store) consumption, must be monitored.
If you have an established monitoring practice, you may be able to proactively react before something bad happens most of the time. Generally, you will be able to fix the cause of alarm yourself, for example, shutting down non-productive instances, deleting stale volumes, or deleting unnecessary S3 objects in a bucket.
However, as AWS CTO Werner Vogels said, “Everything fails, all the time.” It’s an inconvenient truth that any physical hardware will inevitably degrade to a point...
