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AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises

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If I'm understanding this right I run a VM (or let this process have access to my host) and then I can spin up AWS services on my local host? So I can have a development SQS queue that is run locally and then when I move to the cloud I can just change the config to point to the cloud version? And this is...? Free? I can't see anything about pricing.

If this is true this is amazing as it lets you prototype with AWS services for the cost of hardware.

No, this is more like a rack that you buy from AWS at AWS pricing. I see people using AWS Public for development and "air gapped" [1] AWS Outposts for production.

[1] not really

Ahh ok, thank you for clarify. This makes more sense even if it makes me a little sad. I'd love to use AWS for side/hobby stuff and then use the cloud-version once I was ready to launch something. I just can't justify paying $7 minimum a month for a VM when I have 2 cloud servers and 3 home servers already that are all more powerful.

I hate that for AWS you have to either pay to develop or use hacky semi-equivalents locally and hope it works when you go to the cloud.

They have a free tier for exactly this purpose. Almost all the services have pretty reasonable free tiers.

But AWS (maybe others as well) only lasts for 1 year and lambda and stuff might have higher free tiers but stuff like EC2 barely covers a T1 micro IIRC.

You can sign up new accounts, even on the same credit card. Additionally I believe that if you contact support and agree for them to wipe all the resources in your account - you can have another year of free tier again.

And of course, you're deploying all your stuff automatically anyway right? So wiping the account doesn't really matter.

I'm surprised to see this - I thought Azure On-Prem would have this market to themselves, to be honest.

This will be the death of a lot of the smaller virt/hybrid cloud business models, I suspect.

Most of their margins are value added services not hosting. This actually takes the capital expenditure off their plate so they can focus on the high margin services.

I've always been suspicious that you could roll your own aws if the volume justified the effort. Feels like this may have the unintended side effect of inspiring clever CIOs to consider doing this without Amazon.

This is kinda Amazon offering their own version of Eucalyptus, just 10 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)

Disclosure: I work for AWS doing many things, including Outposts.

Only if all of regional ("in the cloud") EC2 and EBS services had been re-platformed to run on Eucalyptus.

A significant difference here is that the same infrastructure building blocks used for EC2 and EBS are used for Outposts, and the same regional control plane endpoint is used to create and manage resources. It isn't a second implementation that operates similarly to the regional cloud version.

Additionally, all of the control plane components that are used to drive the infrastructure in the way your API requests intend run in the regional cloud, which leaves practically all of the Outposts resources available for customer workloads.

Where can I find the full list of products being released during AWS re:Invent? I haven't been able to find it, if there is such thing.

Probably your best bet:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/

https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/

The rate at which the aws team is executing new ideas is phenomenal.

Not really a new idea - very much a me-too of Azure on-prem, and still quite a bit behind them. I'm more surprised that they were able to run this politically.

"available next year"

aka 4 weeks... so what?

Technically "next year" is 4-56 weeks from today Nov 29.

Second half of 2019, they clarified somewhere.

Still the pace under which they are able to develop new functionality is amazing given their size and growth rate.

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