Organizations can order Outposts configurations with a combination of compute and storage capacity that suits their needs. This is done through the AWS Console (see our tutorial below). Each configuration includes pre-validated SKUs that offer a combination of Amazon EC2 and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, built-in networking.
After you make an order, within a few weeks an AWS representative physically delivers the hardware to the site, connects it to power, and establishes a network connection to the AWS Region and local network (see more details about networking below). The equipment used to configure AWS Outposts is fully managed, monitored, and operated by AWS, just like the equipment in AWS data centers.
Once the Outposts device is locally installed, you can launch EC2 instances locally – using standard AWS APIs or the AWS Console. Development teams can use native AWS services to build and run applications, leveraging local resources running on the Outpost device, or remotely on connected AWS Regions.
A major advantage of Outposts is the ability to manage resources on premises and in the public cloud in a uniform way. Both cloud sites and local sites supporting outposts use the same Intel Xeon technology and the same EC2 instance types to support seamless migration from on-premises to cloud resources.