Form factors

The Outposts racks are avalilable in 42U form factor.

The Outposts rack-mountable servers fit inside 19" width, EIA-310 cabinets. The 1U high server is 24” deep, and uses AWS Graviton2 processors. The 2U high server is 30” deep and uses 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Installation

AWS delivers Outposts racks fully assembled and ready to be rolled into final position. Racks are installed by AWS and simply need to be plugged into power and network.

AWS delivers Outposts servers directly to you, installed by either onsite personnel install or a 3rd-party vendor. Once connected to your network, AWS will remotely provision compute and storage resources.

Locally supported services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EBS Snapshots, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elasticache*, Amazon EMR*, Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon Route 53 Resolver*, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery*. Extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on-premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts racks, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region.

*Availiable on first-generation Outposts racks only

Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and AWS IoT Greengrass. Extend Amazon Virtual Private Cloud on-premises and run select AWS services locally on Outposts servers, and connect to a broad range of services available in the AWS Region.

Networking

• Includes integrated networking gear.

• Supports Local Gateway, which requires Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over a routed network.

• Does not include integrated networking gear.

• Supports a simplified network integration experience providing a local Layer 2 presence. 

Power

• Second-generation Outposts compute racks support three power configurations: 10 kVA, 15 kVA, or 30 kVA. The Outposts network rack draws 8.89 kVA of power. First-generation Outposts racks support three power configurations: 5 kVA, 10 kVA, or 15 kVA. The configuration of the power shelf depends on the total power draw of the Outpost capacity.

• Centralized redundant power conversion unit and a direct current (DC) distribution system in the backplane handled by line mate connectors.

• Requires 1-2 kVA of power.

• Supports standard alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power options.