AWS says upcoming on-prem solution seeing 'immense customer interest'

Outposts is slated for a November release

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it has seen "immense customer interest" for its Outposts offering, which is set to launch later this year.

Outposts was announced in November last year, as a way of linking its public cloud to hardware infrastructure stored on-premises.

In a blog post Matt Garman, VP of AWS compute services, said that the offering - which uses hardware provided by, and is maintained by, AWS - is due to be available this November.

"We are excited about the enthusiasm we're seeing from customers, and are eager to help them focus on innovating for their end-users without worrying about procuring, deploying, and operating the infrastructure for their applications," he said.

"With AWS Outposts, we are bringing the same AWS infrastructure, APIs, services, and tools to help customers build applications that can run as reliably and securely at any of their sites as in the cloud."

Garman said that Outposts runs on the same hardware that AWS uses in its own datacentres and can therefore perform at the same levels as as its public cloud regions.

He revealed that the solution is already installed with some customers ahead of its general release, claiming AWS is talking to customers across a number of verticals including manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and telecoms.

"One of the most common scenarios is applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or onsite equipment," he said.

Garman added that customers wanting to use AWS services in environments without an Internet connection should use its Snowball Edge offering, with Outposts designed exclusive for connect environments.