Announcing AWS Outposts racks for high throughput, network-intensive workloads (Preview)
AWS announces the preview of new AWS Outposts racks designed specifically for on-premises high throughput, network-intensive workloads. With these new Outposts racks, telecom service providers (telcos) can extend AWS infrastructure and services to telco locations, enabling them to deploy on-premises network functions requiring low latency, high throughput, and real-time performance.
The new Outposts racks feature new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) bare metal instances along with a high-performance bare metal network fabric. This architecture delivers the low latency and high throughput required for demanding 5G workloads, such as User Plane Function (UPF) and Radio Access Network (RAN) Central Unit (CU) network functions.
Telcos can now use Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and built-in EKS add-ons to automate deployment and scaling of micro-services based 5G network functions for high throughput and performance. Telcos can now use the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, tools, and a common continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline wherever their workloads reside. This consistent cloud experience eases operational burden, reduces integration costs, and maximizes new feature development velocity for operators.
The new AWS Outposts racks are currently available in preview in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).