Category: AWS Outposts

In this post, we explore the architecture considerations that come into play when deciding between a multi-rack logical Outposts rack, or using multiple Outposts racks to support your highly available workloads.

With AWS Outposts racks, you can extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises locations. Providing performant, stable, and resilient network connections to both the parent AWS Region as well as the local network is essential to maintaining uninterrupted service. The release of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics, VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState, gives you greater visibility into the operational status of the Outpost network connections. In this post, we discuss how to use these metrics to quickly identify network disruptions, using additional data points that can help reduce time to resolution.

September 2025: AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. The guidance in this blog post also applies to these storage systems. Read Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPE for more details. Building on our previous announcement, AWS Outposts third-party storage integration for data volumes, […]

As you move your generative AI implementations from prototype to production, you may discover the need to run foundation models (FMs) on-premises or at the edge to address data residency, information security (InfoSec) policy, or low latency requirements. To address users’ data residency, latency, and InfoSec needs, this post provides guidance on deploying generative AI FMs into AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts.

AWS Outposts supports self-service capacity management at the entire Outpost level, or at the individual asset level, making it easy for you to view and manage compute capacity on your Outposts. The release of Asset Level Capacity Management allows you to control the configuration of specific assets within your Outpost, which can be useful when planning strategies for EC2 Auto Scaling groups and host-level high availability. This post focuses on how to use Asset Level Capacity Management to perform single-host reconfigurations, and how this can be used with Amazon EC2 placement groups to control instance placement on your Outpost.

In this post, we review best practices for capacity management and fault tolerance with Outposts rack followed by an example of how the Outposts API can be used to build an automated monitoring and alerting system to highlight potential resiliency issues.

This post is written by Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Leonardo Queirolo, Senior Cloud Support Engineer, and Reet Kundu, Senior Cloud Support Engineer Powering generative AI/ML solutions with AWS Outposts Servers at Edge locations Many organizations are vigorously pursuing generative AI initiatives in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud today because generative AI drive advances […]

This post is written by Perry Wald, Principal GTM SA, Hybrid Edge, Eric Vasquez Senior SA Hybrid Edge, and Fernando Galves Gen AI Solutions Architect, Outposts AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. Outposts servers launched in 2022, a 1U or 2U rack-mountable host, […]

This post is written by Arun Kumar N C, Technical Account Manager; Debapriyo Jogi, Technical Account Manager; and Ashish Nagaraj, Cloud Support Engineer 2 Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud architectures that combine the scalability of cloud computing with the control and compliance benefits of on-premises infrastructure. AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, […]

This post is written by Craig Warburton, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid; Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid; and Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Migrating workloads to AWS Outposts Rack offers you the opportunity to gain the benefits of cloud computing while keeping your data and applications on premises. For organizations with strict data residency […]