By Leo Gladys
Introduction
If you are thinking of growing your business and moving to a digitalized error, you should start thinking of outposts. AWS outposts services and simply hybrid services that can deliver APIs managed AWS infrastructure, and other important tools virtually to customers on-premise. When you are getting started with AWS outpost, you should also be thinking about important things such as networking as well as AWS services on outposts.
Networking
- VPC extensions
It is now very possible to extend your VPC to outposts in the on-premises location. It is very simple, after you are done with the installation, you can simply create a simple subnet in the VPC within your region and make sure that it is associated with the installed outpost. There is always mutual communication between the outpost subnets within the same region.
- Local gateway
What you should also understand about networking is that each outpost is capable of providing a new local gateway. This will allow you to connect your premise network with your outpost resources. It simply allows low-latency connectivity between any local data and the outposts.
- The load balance
The load balance also has everything to do with networking. It is very possible to provision a load balancer for the sake of distributing every incoming HTTP(s). This can easily be done without any manual interference of intervention.
- Private connection
With the help of an AWS private connection, it is very possible to establish a VPN that will be connected from your outposts to the AWS location or region. This is normally done over AWS direct connection.
AWS services on outposts
When you are thinking of installing or configuring outposts in your system, it is very important to learn about AWS services on AWS outpost. It is very possible to now run different types of AWS services for the sake of building and running your local application on-premises. There is much more to know about AWS services on outposts. You should be able to understand important things such as containers, databases, data analytics, upgrading the services that are running on outposts, and access to regional services among other important points.
Conclusion
Outpost is a very wide topic and service that should never take lightly. Instead of just making a move to order, you should first determine what it is, how it can benefit you if it is compatible with the platforms that you already have among other things.
