Integrating AWS Wavelength with other services

Referring back to the section in Chapter 3 about MEC, we covered how MNOs are building these capabilities out in their existing aggregation or regional central offices (COs). These are not gigantic data centers such as those a standard availability zone consists of.

This is why the service selection is limited to those that are most requested by customers for proven MEC use cases.

EC2 instances

AWS Wavelength Zones supports a limited number of Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instance types. The current list of instance types available in any given AWS Wavelength Zone can be queried with the following CLI command:

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings \
--location-type "availability-zone" \
--filters Name=location,Values=eu-west-2-wl1-lon-wlz-1 \
--region eu-west-2 \
--query "InstanceTypeOfferings[*].[InstanceType]" \
--output text | sort

Figure 7.20 – Querying the EC2 instance...