[HN Gopher] AWS Outposts
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       AWS Outposts
        
       Author : psim1
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-11-30 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | onychomys wrote:
       | So I must be missing something here. They drive to your workplace
       | with a truck and drop off a bunch of servers and wires and stuff
       | and get them all set up for you. Then you log into them and use
       | the same APIs that you'd use if you connected to a normal AWS
       | bucket? Why not just do the cloud server instead? Is this for
       | people who have to move/store very large amounts of data such
       | that transfer time is an issue? Or is it just a thing to let you
       | not worry about sysadmin-type stuff because the Amazon dude does
       | all of it for you?
        
         | voxic11 wrote:
         | This is for businesses which have regulatory requirements that
         | they store data in-state. State governments don't like it when
         | certain data is stored out of state. They like the idea that
         | they can just dispatch their own police to seize the required
         | records from the server rather than needing to ask for the
         | cooperation of another government and its own police force.
         | 
         | I know specifically its popular in the regulated gambling and
         | insurance industries.
        
         | r00fus wrote:
         | Yes - take for example gene sequencing - that requires a huge
         | amount of data shuffling and going cloud for that is infeasible
         | simply for the data transfer costs.
         | 
         | With Outpost this becomes feasible. This "cloud in a box" idea
         | has been around for a long time, but I guess Amazon has enough
         | brainshare for the tooling that it may make sense for companies
         | to have this for data-intensive compute and keep the same
         | skillset requirements as the rest of their fully-clouded
         | operations.
        
       | lovetocode wrote:
       | I have had the pleasure of building on an outpost for several
       | months. It's an interesting experience.
        
         | r00fus wrote:
         | Now you have us interested..
        
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