Even though Outposts racks are hosted in a customer’s data center, Amazon still monitors the infrastructure once it is installed and takes care of upgrading Outposts. In the event of a hardware failure, it can be replaced without downtime at the customer location as a result of it being modular.

For administrators and DevOps engineers, existing AWS skills are transferrable to Outposts. The APIs, tools and operational practices they perform in the public cloud can also be used with Outposts. This also includes CI/CD pipelines and supports building hybrid architectures where some components may execute in the AWS public cloud and some on-premises.

Customers have many options when it comes to choosing the underlying infrastructure components they would like in their racks. Outposts support Intel powered, Nitro-based EC2 instances including, C5, C5d, M5, M5d, R5, R5d, G4, and I3en. Customers can mix types as required and can add additional infrastructure as required.

From a storage and networking perspective, Outposts supports EBS gp2, general purpose SSD storage with a maximum size of 2.7 TB and each Outpost has a pair of networking devices. Each networking device has capacity of up to 400 Gps of connectivity and support for 1 GigE, 10 GigE, 40 GigE, and 100 Gigabit fiber connections.

Outposts are currently available in select countries, including United States, all EU countries, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, South Korea and Australia.

Even though Outposts racks are hosted in a customer’s data center, Amazon still monitors the infrastructure once it is installed and takes care of upgrading Outposts. In the event of a hardware failure, it can be replaced without downtime at the customer location as a result of it being modular.

For administrators and DevOps engineers, existing AWS skills are transferrable to Outposts. The APIs, tools and operational practices they perform in the public cloud can also be used with Outposts. This also includes CI/CD pipelines and supports building hybrid architectures where some components may execute in the AWS public cloud and some on-premises.

Customers have many options when it comes to choosing the underlying infrastructure components they would like in their racks. Outposts support Intel powered, Nitro-based EC2 instances including, C5, C5d, M5, M5d, R5, R5d, G4, and I3en. Customers can mix types as required and can add additional infrastructure as required.

From a storage and networking perspective, Outposts supports EBS gp2, general purpose SSD storage with a maximum size of 2.7 TB and each Outpost has a pair of networking devices. Each networking device has capacity of up to 400 Gps of connectivity and support for 1 GigE, 10 GigE, 40 GigE, and 100 Gigabit fiber connections.

Outposts are currently available in select countries, including United States, all EU countries, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, South Korea and Australia.