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Incorporating AWS Outposts into Your On-Premises Data Center

The original AWS Outposts service was introduced in 2019. It is best thought of as an extension of an existing AWS region into an on-premises data center.

AWS Outposts was developed due to customers’ desire to expand their use of AWS’ cloud-based services while operating under constraints associated with latency or regulatory/compliance regimes that dictate the physical location of compute/storage hardware. Compared to the AWS Snow family of services, AWS Outposts offers considerably more compute and storage capacity, an expanded list of supported services, and a user experience more closely matching that found within standard AWS regions.

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