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Christian Bates

Author: Christian Bates

Christian leads the US Federal & Global Government Specialist Solutions Architect team. He and his team help customers deep dive on GovCloud, Networking, Database, Storage, and Container services to transform their organizations and advance their missions. With over 20 years supporting Public Sector customers, Christian guides them through cloud adoption using the most advanced technologies.

Planning a migration from AWS Outposts first-generation to second-generation

AWS Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises locations for workloads that require low latency, local data processing, or data residency. In April 2025, we announced the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts. If you’re running workloads on first-generation AWS Outposts, we recommend developing a structured migration strategy to move to second-generation. […]