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Simplify network segmentation for AWS Outposts racks with multiple local gateway routing domains

AWS now supports multiple local gateway (LGW) routing domains on AWS Outposts racks to simplify network segmentation. Network segmentation is the practice of splitting a computer network into isolated subnetworks, or network segments. This reduces the attack surface so that if a host on one network segment is compromised, the hosts on the other network segments are not affected. Many customers in regulated industries such as manufacturing, health care and life sciences, banking, and others implement network segmentation as part of their on-premises network security standards to reduce the impact of a breach and help address compliance requirements.

Improving network observability with new AWS Outposts racks network metrics

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.

Anchoring AWS Outposts servers with AWS Direct Connect

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, […]

Implementing network traffic inspection on AWS Outposts rack (update)

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, […]

Figure 1: Diagram showing the three migration phases of assess, mobilize, and migrate and modernize

Migrating your on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts Rack (update)

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 […]

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NEW: Simplifying the use of third-party block storage with AWS Outposts

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. This post is written by Kate Sposato, Senior Solutions Architect, EC2 Edge Compute […]

Diagram showing the three migration phases of assess, mobilize, and migrate and modernize

Migrating your on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts rack

This post is written by Craig Warburton, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. 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 requirements, […]

Prior to this feature, you could not send traffic to the local gateway, as you could not set a route that was more specific than the VPC's CIDR Range

Introducing Intra-VPC Communication Across Multiple Outposts with Direct VPC Routing

This blog post is written by Jared Thompson, Specialist Solutions Architect, Hybrid Edge. Today, we announced AWS Outposts rack support for intra-VPC communication across multiple Outposts. You can now add routes in your Outposts rack subnet route table to forward traffic between subnets within the same VPC spanning across multiple Outposts using the Outpost local […]