Introduction to AWS Outposts
Rob Chen
Head of Infrastructure Solutions Product Marketing
March 27, 2019
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Learning Objectives
Hybrid Cloud use cases
AWS Outposts overview
Understand how it works to support on-premises workloads
Explore use cases for AWS Outposts
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Hybrid Stats
$96B 71% 75%
Size of hybrid Organizations Enterprise
market by with hybrid applications that
2023 deployments are still on-
premises
Source: IDC, Rightscale, Forrester, Markets & Markets
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Customer Benefits of Hybrid
ACCELERATE TIME TO MARKET OPTIMIZE COSTS
EXTEND TO THE CLOUD MINIMIZE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES
SCALE SEAMLESSLY MANAGE ACROSS IT FOOTPRINTS
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Hybrid Outcomes
Tight integration Run workloads on Run workloads on- Reduce DC
the cloud premises investments
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Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
Integrate on-premises resources with Use VMware software Run AWS infrastructure
AWS for cloud migration, DC extension, and tools to run on-premises for latency
disaster recovery workloads on AWS sensitive workloads
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AWS Outposts
Announced at AWS re:Invent 2018
Availability: Second half 2019
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AWS Outposts
Fully integrated and fully managed AWS infrastructure
on-premises
Building on the security, performance & power of the
Nitro system
Offering the same APIs and functionality as in public
AWS regions
Automatically monitored, updated and patched as part
of AWS regions
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Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
AWS Fully featured AWS services delivered by
Region regional AWS control plane
(N. California) Developer
AWS Outposts
Los Angeles
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Extension of AWS Region
AWS
Region
(N. California)
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Extension of AWS Region
AWS Outposts
AWS Sacramento
Region
(N. California)
AWS Outposts
Los Angeles
AWS Outposts
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Houston
Extending the Cloud
AWS
Region
(N. California)
Application Developer
back-end
Low-latency Low-latency Low-latency
front-end front-end front-end
Los Angeles
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Local AWS Services for Low Latency Applications
Amazon EC2 services, including VPC,
subnets, route tables, network
gateways, and EBS volumes
At launch or soon after, AWS services
including RDS, ELB, ECS, EKS, EMR,
SageMaker
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Using the same AWS APIs and tools
Manage and automate applications
using EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, AWS
CloudFormation, Elastic BeanStalk
Get the same metrics and visibility
using CloudWatch and CloudTrail
services in the local region
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Available in Two Options
Native AWS VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware SDDC-as-a-service
Same APIs, services, and features
as in the AWS cloud
VMware APIs and services to
leverage existing skills,
EC2 and EBS with future support
automation, and governance
for services including RDS, ECS,
policies
EKS, EMR, SageMaker
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Optimized Footprint
Wide range of Nitro-based EC2 instances
General Purpose (M5), Compute Optimized (C5),
Memory Optimized (R5), and next generation
Graphics Optimized, I/O Optimized and others
coming soon
Choose from a range of predefined SKUs
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Operations & Maintenance
Fully managed as part of AWS region
Freedom from perpetual software downloads, upgrades,
and application downtime; no more complex software
compatibility matrices between virtualization software for
compute, networking, and storage
Full visibility and control with detailed health metrics and
alerts available to IT personnel
Composed of modular units to enable fast and easy
replacement for upgrade and maintenance
Single point of support for customers
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Pre-requisites
Standard data center space and power
Network connection to an AWS region
• Get reliable, consistent, and low latency connectivity via AWS Direct
Connect
• OR Use Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the internet
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Regions & Availability
Global coverage enabled by public AWS regions
Deployable in virtually any data center or co-location space
More details closer to general availability
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How AWS Outposts work
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How AWS Outposts Work
Configure Connect Launch Build
Configure and Connect Outposts Use AWS Console Build apps using
order Outposts to your local power to launch EC2 native AWS services
in AWS Console and network instances on Outposts to deploy on Outposts or in
the AWS Cloud
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Connect Outposts to On-premises Networks
Amazon Customer
VPC Network
Route
Table VIF Customer
Dynamic or Gateway
Static Routing
Amazon
VPC
Outpost Gateway
AWS Outposts
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Customer use cases
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Low latency apps need high fidelity cloud experience on-premises
Low Latency Telco Legacy Applications Financial Services
Operations Transaction Processing, High Frequency Trading,
Virtual Network Functions ERP Applications Exchange Platforms, Core
Banking
Content Production, Real-time Inference Industrial Automation
Distribution & Gaming Autonomous vehicles, Processing Manufacturing, Sensor control,
Lossless signal ingestion, outdoor sensor data Robotics
Live Event and Game streaming
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Summary
Hybrid cloud Customers Customers Customers
driven by low want to build want a single want
latency once & deploy point of standardized
applications anywhere support infrastructure
for efficiency
More on-premises Now use fully Now get end-to-end Now get same same
applications are moving featured AWS infrastructure service security,
to the cloud
services to run and support for quick performance, and
Emerging applications applications locally or resolution and high reliability anywhere.
require low latency on-premises reliability
compute near end
users
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Thank you!
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