AWS Outposts begins to take shape to bring the cloud into the data center
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AWS Outposts begins to take shape to bring the cloud into the data center
When AWS announced Outposts last year, a private cloud hardware stack they install in your data center, there were a lot of unanswered questions. This week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced general availability as the vision for this approach began to come clearer.
AWS CEO Andy Jassy, speaking at a press conference earlier today said that there are certain workloads like running a factory that need compute resources to be close because of low latency requirements. That's where Outposts could play well, and where similar existing solutions in his opinion fell short because there wasn't a smooth connection between the on-prem hardware and the cloud.
"We tried to rethink this with a different approach," he said. "We thought about it more as trying to distribute AWS on premises. With Outposts, you have racks of AWS servers that have compute, storage, database and analytics and machine learning on them. You get to decide what composition you want and we deliver that to you," he said.
The hardware is equipped with a slew of services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon ECS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon EMR. Conspicuously missing is S3 storage, but Amazon promises that will be coming in 2020 with other services on deck as well.
Make no mistake, the world's premiere cloud infrastructure vendor will be installing a rack of hardware inside your data center. AWS has formed a team inside the company to handle installation, monitoring and management of the equipment.
The easy way to think about this would be that it's a way for companies, who might be afraid to go