Announcing availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks in 52 more countries
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Brunei, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, European Union countries, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts racks are ideal for workloads that require low-latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Outposts racks can also help meet data residency requirements. Second-generation Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances. These instances provide up to 40% better performance compared to C5, M5, and R5 instances on first-generation Outposts racks. Second-generation Outposts racks also offer simplified network scaling and configuration, and support a new category of accelerated networking Amazon EC2 instances optimized for ultra-low latency and high throughput needs.
With the availability of second-generation Outposts racks in the above countries, you can use AWS services to run your workloads and data in country in your on-premises facilities and connect to the nearest available AWS Region for management and operations.
To learn more about second-generation Outposts racks, read this blog post and the user guide. For the most updated list of countries and territories and the AWS Regions where second-generation Outposts racks are supported, check out the Outposts racks FAQs page.