AWS Outposts Family

Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience

Overview

AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts solutions allow you to extend and run native AWS services on premises, and is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployments.

With AWS Outposts, you can run some AWS services locally and connect to a broad range of services available in the local AWS Region. Run applications and workloads on premises using familiar AWS services, tools, and APIs. Outposts supports workloads and devices requiring low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and application migration with local system interdependencies.

Benefits

Run AWS Services on premises

Fully managed infrastructure

Truly consistent hybrid experience

Outposts Family members

AWS Outposts racks

The AWS Outposts racks are industry standard 42U form factor. They provide the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter or co-location space. Outposts racks provide AWS compute, storage, database, and other services locally, while still allowing you to access the full range of AWS services available in the Region for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Scale from a single 42U rack to multiple rack deployments of up to 96 racks to create pools of compute and storage capacity.

AWS Outposts servers

The AWS Outposts servers come in a 1U or 2U form factor. They provide the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises and edge locations that have limited space or smaller capacity requirements, such as retail stores, branch offices, healthcare provider locations, or factory floors. Outposts servers provide local compute and networking services.

Feature comparison

	AWS Outposts racks	AWS Outposts servers
Form factors	The Outposts racks are avalilable in 42U form factor.	The Outposts rack-mountable servers fit inside 19" width, EIA-310 cabinets. The 1U high server is 24” deep, and uses AWS Graviton2 processors. The 2U high server is 30” deep and uses 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Installation	AWS delivers Outposts racks fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. Racks are installed by AWS and simply need to be plugged into power and network.	AWS delivers Outposts servers directly to you, installed by either onsite personnel install or a 3rd-party vendor. Once connected to your network, AWS will remotely provision compute and storage resources.
Locally supported services	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EBS Snapshots, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elasticache, Amazon EMR, Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon Route 53 Resolver, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. Seamlessly extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts racks, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region. *Availiable on first-generation Outposts racks only	Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and AWS IoT Greengrass. Seamlessly extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts servers, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region.
Networking	• Includes integrated networking gear. • Supports Local Gateway, which requires Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over a routed network.	• Does not include integrated networking gear. • Supports a simplified network integration experience providing a local Layer 2 presence.
Power	• Second-generation Outposts compute racks support three power configurations: 10 kVA, 15 kVA, or 30 kVA. The Outposts network rack draws 8.89 kVA of power. First-generation Outposts racks support three power configurations: 5 kVA, 10 kVA, or 15 kVA. The configuration of the power shelf depends on the total power draw of the Outpost capacity. • Centralized redundant power conversion unit and a direct current (DC) distribution system in the backplane handled by line mate connectors.	• Requires 1-2 kVA of power. • Supports standard alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power options.