Extending the potential of AWS services in your hybrid-environment with AWS Outposts (see physical AWS Outpost rack below) –
AWS Outposts was a service that was introduced at AWS re:Invent in 2018. It allows you to extend the capabilities of AWS services like ECS, EKS, RDS, and EMR locally. You can also extend the power of your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), so that your instances in your VPC in the cloud can communicate with your instances on-premises via an AWS Outpost. It is a physical rack that is secure and fully managed by AWS (click here for more information about the Amazon Web Services Shared Responsibility model).
Many companies are moving their application workloads to the cloud to take advantage of the significant cost savings and agility that AWS provides. But in some instances, you may still need to run certain applications on-premises for lower latency and local data processing needs. With AWS Outposts customers are only responsibility for the security of their applications running on the Outposts and the physical security of the Outpost rack itself.
So how do you get started with this service?
- Order from a range of fully integrated and pre-validated configurations
- Then someone from AWS will deliver your Outpost rack!
- Then connect to power and a network that you will provide (this will be your on premises network)
- Then you will need to connect your AWS Outpost to the nearest AWS Region. You will do this using another AWS service called AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN
- Build and run your applications with AWS services on your Outposts
Here’s a funny AND cute cat meme for getting through all of the AWS jargon so far!
And as of today, Application Load Balancers (ALB) now support AWS Outposts!
ALB on Outposts is a fully managed and secure request layer 7 (see OSI model explained) load balancing service that automatically distributes traffic across multiple targets, being AWS EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.
This update helps customers take advantage of the increased availability and low latency load balancing for applications that need to run closer to their on-premises facility.
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