Updated 9th April 2024.
What is “AWS Outposts”?
AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Outposts can also help meet data residency requirements. Outposts is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployments.
Use cases
The Bexprt team are ready to support you throughout your AWS Outposts journey, working with you to address the most relevant use cases for your business. Common AWS Outputs use cases include disaster recovery (DR), backup & restore, GPUs for LLM production, test & dev, hybrid cloud and more!
- Low latency compute
- Deliver high-quality gaming experiences for interactive applications, like real-time multiplayer games, to players all over the world. When the nearest public cloud servers are not close enough to meet single-digit millisecond latency requirements, AWS Outposts can help run business applications where you need them for manufacturing execution systems (MES), high-frequency trading, or medical diagnostics.
- Data residency
- Data sometimes needs to remain in a particular country, state, or municipality for regulatory, contractual, or information security reasons. This is often the case with financial services, healthcare, oil and gas, and other highly regulated industries. With AWS Outposts, you can control where your workloads run and where your data resides, with low-friction movement between cloud and edge locations to easily adapt to regulatory changes.
- Migration & modernization
- Legacy on-premises applications often have latency-sensitive system dependencies, making them difficult to migrate. AWS Outposts allows you to segment migrations into smaller pieces on premises, maintaining latency sensitive connectivity between application components until you are ready to migrate.
- Local data processing
- Process data locally for use cases such as data lakes and machine learning (ML) model training, or set up a consistent hybrid architecture to process local, difficult-to-migrate data sets with cost, size, or bandwidth constraints and move data to the cloud for long-term archival.
If Outposts is available in your country, you can use AWS services to run your workloads and data in country in your on-premises facilities and connect to your nearest AWS Region for management and operations.
Deep dive and discover more about the AWS Outposts family, and AWS Global Infrastructure.
AWS Outposts & Saudi Arabia
Two recent announcements from AWS mark the arrival of AWS Outposts to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 4th March 2024 (LEAP): AWS announcement for an Infrastructure Region in Saudi Arabia
- 8th April 2024: Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- “AWS Outposts can be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
How can you utilize AWS Outposts?
Typically used by the Financial or Public Sectors, discover more about AWS Outposts and download this free eBook for immediate background information.
Want to know more about AWS Outposts?
Please get in touch if you would like to know more, or start an informal conversation,
- hello@bexprt.com
- or call / Whats App Ghaith Hamza, Business Development Manager, in English or Arabic +966569986970
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