Paradigms are shifting when it comes to how companies are managing their data. It shifted from having their own, on-premise servers to having cloud based infrastructure to support their data storage and compute needs. Now, the paradigm is shifting to a complementary approach which focuses on what the industry is calling – the hybrid cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) addressed the growing demand for a hybrid solution for their customers with their announcement of AWS Outposts at their annual Re:Invent conference last year.
The new AWS Outposts offering brings the power and flexibility of AWS’s cloud platform on premises for businesses that require it. The service provides customers with an customizable server stack that is able to provide any of AWS’s numerous modules. These workloads can then function exactly like their cloud counterparts but at a drastically reduced latency; allowing for local processing for workloads that require low latency. The new service also allows users to store and access their data locally. This negates the need for businesses to sacrifice large chunks of time uploading their data to cloud servers and data lakes. It also helps businesses that handle sensitive data maintain their integrity while bringing them into the future.
AWS Outposts are a fully managed service allowing companies to rest at ease when it comes to maintenance and troubleshooting. In fact, AWS Outposts are designed to give the exact same user experience as AWS’s regular services. Users won’t need to learn a totally new interface or jump between the interfaces when it comes to handling these hybrid workloads. Outposts are also able to interact with AWS Cloud seamlessly.
AWS Outposts have now made it’s way to Malaysia. The infrastructure is ready for Malaysia’s homegrown businesses to take advantage of. The introduction of AWS Outposts in Malaysia allows businesses to process compute workloads on premises. In fact, two major companies have already adopted the technology in their everyday business.
Starting on the 25th of June 2020, AWS customers in Malaysia are able to bring AWS’s compute, storage and graphics optimised instances on premises. This includes the recently announced AMD powered instance in addition to AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Relational Database Service (RDS) and more.
