Mobile and fixed network connectivity service providers believe edge computing is an opportunity for them to leverage their real estate and connectivity assets.
But it was only a matter of time before today’s cloud computing giants began to show their migration path to edge computing. AWS seems to have gotten there first.
AWS Outposts enables native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models at “virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility,” AWS says. “You can use the same APIs, the same tools, the same hardware, and the same functionality across on-premises and the cloud to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience.”
The obvious applications are enterprise-driven use cases where low latency is a paramount concern, or where local data processing is essential for the use case. Industrial internet of things, high-definition video or security, for example.
AWS Outposts come in two variants, the first being VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts, which allows customers to use the existing VMware control plane and application programming interfaces.
The AWS-native variant of AWS Outposts allows customers to use the same APIs and control plane used to run in the AWS cloud, but on-premises.
AWS Outposts infrastructure is fully managed, maintained, and supported by AWS to deliver access to the latest AWS services, the company says.
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