The AWS edge computing strategy
The combined effects of physics, economics, regulatory compliance, and organizational inertia have led to customers implementing hybrid architectures that require them to continue operating a full data center stack – even if all they want to do is host a few virtual machines.
An example of such a situation is depicted next. In this instance, the customer has built a cloud-native application making full use of the benefits afforded by AWS managed services. This application interacts with their ERP system to provide real-time insights from their manufacturing plants. However, because their ERP system must reside in a particular geography, they have retained a small physical footprint in their corporate data center. Their developers have to interact with on-premise components using different APIs than they use for cloud-based elements. Their operations team has to use a different set of tools to manage those resources, and what’s worse...
