Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks

Today, AWS announces the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks, marking the latest innovation from AWS at the edge of the cloud for your workloads that require low latency, local data processing, and data residency.

Second-generation Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with general purpose M7i instances, compute-optimized C7i instances, and memory-optimized R7i instances. These instances deliver twice the virtual CPU, memory, and network bandwidth, and up to 40% better performance compared to C5, M5, and R5 instances on first-generation Outposts racks. Second-generation Outposts racks also feature a new networking architecture that has built-in resiliency to handle network device failures and enables decoupling of compute and networking and self-service local gateway (LGW) configurations. These advancements simplify network operations and enable cost-efficient scaling of on-premises workloads. The launch also introduces a new category of EC2 instances for AWS Outposts racks with accelerated networking. These instances feature specialized network accelerator cards and are designed for the most latency-sensitive, compute-intensive, and throughput-intensive on-premises workloads such as core trading systems of financial exchanges, real-time market data distribution, telecom 5G core, and media distribution.

With second-generation Outposts racks, you can continue to leverage the same APIs, management console, automation, governance policies, and security controls for your applications across AWS Regions and on-premises locations. This allows you to centralize infrastructure management and boost developer productivity by standardizing on a common set of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

For a current list of AWS Regions and countries/territories where Outposts racks are supported, check out the Outposts rack FAQs page.

To learn more, read this blog post.