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Re: AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises

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Post by tomashertus » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 12:02 AM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #8

hiby007 wrote: post #5

The rate at which the aws team is executing new ideas is phenomenal.

Not really a new idea - very much a me-too of Azure on-prem, and still quite a bit behind them. I'm more surprised that they were able to run this politically.

Still the pace under which they are able to develop new functionality is amazing given their size and growth rate.

Re: AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises

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Post by ykevinator » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 11:47 AM UTC

I've always been suspicious that you could roll your own aws if the volume justified the effort. Feels like this may have the unintended side effect of inspiring clever CIOs to consider doing this without Amazon.

Re: AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises

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Post by _msw_ » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 1:11 AM UTC

drewda wrote: post #11

This is kinda Amazon offering their own version of Eucalyptus, just 10 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)

Disclosure: I work for AWS doing many things, including Outposts.

Only if all of regional ("in the cloud") EC2 and EBS services had been re-platformed to run on Eucalyptus.

A significant difference here is that the same infrastructure building blocks used for EC2 and EBS are used for Outposts, and the same regional control plane endpoint is used to create and manage resources. It isn't a second implementation that operates similarly to the regional cloud version.

Additionally, all of the control plane components that are used to drive the infrastructure in the way your API requests intend run in the regional cloud, which leaves practically all of the Outposts resources available for customer workloads.