OutSystems on AWS

Migrate, develop and innovate

applications in the cloud
Foreword 3
Modern application development in the cloud 4
Why migrate to AWS? 5
Build it Fast. Build it Right. Build it for the Future. 6
The OutSystems on AWS Opportunity 9
Get started with OutSystems on AWS today 13
About OutSystems 14
 Foreword
As IT organizations of all sizes race towards digital transformation,
the need to rapidly develop new applications is key to fostering
innovation and keeping up with changing business requirements.
But traditional application development can be slow and error
prone. With OutSystems on AWS you can rapidly build secure,
reliable and innovative applications with unparalleled scalability,
agility and access to native AWS services.

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Modern application development in
the cloud
“Almost three-quarters
From CIOs, to Enterprise Architects, to Professional Developers,
IT decision-makers find themselves facing mounting pressure to
of infrastructure and
deliver business-wide digital transformation and modernization. operations pros report
But balancing a need to build innovative applications that support
future growth with increasing demands to deliver at speed while
that migrating existing
avoiding errors is not easy. apps to cloud platforms
Traditional application development processes are slow and for is a priority of their
many organizations have resulted in the accumulation of massive
technical debt and ever-growing application backlogs. Finding, enterprise’s cloud
hiring, training and retaining specialist talent is also challenging, strategy.”
as is ensuring team members always have access to the latest
technology and the most up-to-date infrastructure.
To overcome these strategic challenges, organizations are looking
to the cloud to modernize application development and enable
ongoing innovation. The agility, scalability and access to advanced
technologies afforded by cloud migration are crucial for companies
looking for new ways to shrink accumulated technical debt and
rapidly build reliable, secure, enterprise-grade applications.
As the world’s leading cloud provider, AWS is the platform of choice
for most businesses.

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Why migrate to AWS?
When you migrate to AWS, investing in data centers and services Gartner named AWS as
without knowing exactly how they will be used or managed is a
thing of the past. AWS users only pay for the computing resources cloud leader for tenth
they consume, delivering dramatic cost savings compared with on- consecutive year in new
premises infrastructures.
Migration to AWS also takes the guesswork out of how much
Magic Quadrant for
infrastructure capacity you need to support application Cloud Infrastructure and
deployment, as you can easily scale up or down in response to
demand. In doing so, you also free up precious resources that can
Platform Services (CIPS)
instead be put to work in driving business success and innovation.
Building applications on AWS improves your ability to keep
information secure and compliant with access to sophisticated
services and the platform’s global reach—allowing you to
concentrate on other key business priorities.
AWS is continually investing in the advancement of its cloud
services and businesses can rapidly unlock the limitless power of
the platform by enlisting the help of an AWS Advanced Technology
Partner — like OutSystems.
OutSystems is a full-stack visual development platform that can
support everything from small departmental apps and consumer
apps that run on any touchpoint, to large-scale, mission-critical
core systems. Together, OutSystems and AWS are collaborating to
foster investment in people, technologies and processes for easy
adoption of OutSystems on AWS.

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Build it Fast.
Build it Right.
Build it for the Future.

OutSystems on AWS is your springboard to building future-

ready cloud applications at speed and without errors.
OutSystems makes migrating, developing, and innovating
applications on the cloud incredibly simple. With a platform
designed to accelerate the creation of applications,
organizations of all sizes can create cloud applications faster
and with far fewer resources than ever before.
OutSystems has recently been recognized as a leader in
the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrants for Multiexperience
Development Platforms and Enterprise Low Code Application
Platforms.
OutSystems improves the process of building, deploying, and
managing cloud applications, so customers can fully realize
the agility benefits of the cloud. The modern application
platform cuts through cloud complexity and helps you race
towards innovation with powerful apps that are secure,
scalable, reliable, available, and cost-effective.

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The OutSystems offering

Build apps in weeks—even days—by accelerating OutSystems is designed with a strong focus on
the critical phases of Application Lifecycle scalability, including vertical and horizontal, which
Management (ALM). is adjustable to a customer’s specific requirements.

Leverage lifecycle management and DevOps OutSystems’ distributed architecture supports

capabilities capable of sustaining large software load balancing and removes single points of
factories as they grow—with zero compromise on failure, enabling you to sustain high scalability.
productivity.

Build apps right with state-of-the-art tools and From design time to runtime, OutSystems includes
AI-powered automation that ensure your apps and over 250 security checks to protect your apps and
code are enterprise-grade, technical debt-free, data.
and cloud-ready.

Rapidly create an intuitive user interface, data, Build for the future with an independent runtime
workflows, and integrate pre-built components optimized for continuous upgrades to your
into your app with a single click. The OutSystems technology stack—ensuring you always remain
TrueChange™ engine automatically checks up to date on the latest cloud infrastructure
and manages dependencies and handles all innovations.
deployment processes for you.

Outsystems is a featured supplier on AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog that makes it easy
for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software.

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The AWS advantage

Significantly reduce the time, resources, and Easily connect and centrally manage your
cost of managing infrastructure and upgrading OutSystems VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), existing
hardware and software. AWS accounts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC), and on-premises networks using
the AWS Transit Gateway.

Easily access and work with additional AWS An OutSystems deployment on AWS makes it
services through the OutSystems Forge: a even quicker and easier to stay up to date with the
repository of reusable, open code modules, latest OutSystems platform features, tools, and
connectors, and user interface (UI) components. builders.

From AWS storage, to artificial intelligence (AI) The OutSystems platform’s physical infrastructure
and machine learning (ML), to IoT connectors, is hosted within secure and certified AWS
objects from the Forge can be pulled into the Data Centers, which include multiple layers of
visual development environment and configured operational and physical security to ensure the
with simple drag and drop. integrity and safety of your apps and data. AWS
Data Centers are staffed and supported 24/7/365
Leverage key AWS services like: Amazon Elastic and include intrusion detection, distributed
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2); Amazon Relational denial-of-services mitigation, and recurring risk
Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle, SQL assessments to ensure compliance with industry
Server; Amazon Aurora; Amazon Elastic Block standards.
Store (Amazon EBS); Amazon CloudWatch; AWS
Lambda; Amazon CloudFront; and Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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The OutSystems on
AWS opportunity
From creating new transformative customer
experiences, to workplace innovation,
to process automation and application
modernization—OutSystems on AWS is a
powerful tool for future-facing organizations
of all sizes. Tackle the most important
strategic challenges your business is facing
via a single cloud-based platform, safe in
the knowledge that your apps are secure,
resilient, built to scale and optimized to
make the most of the underlying AWS
infrastructure.

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 Customer experience transformation
Businesses across almost all industries face a growing need to deliver “multiexperiences”
to their customers, facilitating consistent interaction across a broad range of cloud-based
technology. With OutSystems on AWS you can:

Create a “perfect-fit” and consistent CX so users Rapidly edit and launch omnichannel CX apps at
can interact with your brand beyond just desktop scale in a fraction of the time it would take using
and mobile, encompassing wearables, voice traditional development methods.
assistants, and chatbots.

Rely on the OutSystems platform’s enterprise- Confidently handle sensitive customer data on
grade security with continuous fixes for industry- AWS, built with the highest standards for privacy
identified code vulnerabilities. and data security.

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 Workplace innovation
Organizations are under intense pressure to automate and improve internal
operations, both to save money and keep their employees satisfied.
With OutSystems on AWS you can:

Enable team members from across your business Rapidly develop workflow and human
to work together and develop apps that address resources apps that can be updated as
everyone’s needs. needed by both professional developers as
well as non-technical users.

Leverage peer support programs, and a platform Harness AWS services to automate time-
that fosters collaborative, iterative development consuming manual business processes and
and real-time insights that drive employee security tasks in a secure cloud environment.
satisfaction and productivity.

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 Process automation and application modernization
As remote working becomes increasingly normal, employees in the field and working from
home need access to the high-quality resources they’re used to having onsite.
With OutSystems on AWS you can:

Easily—and quickly—develop apps that give Leverage a company-specific platform that allows
off-site employees the ability to access and team members far and wide to share ideas, chart
update information. progress, monitor supply, and analyze critical data.

Develop modern apps built for the future on AWS, Modernize, upgrade, re-platform and future
with integrated IoT sensors and other monitoring proof legacy applications with speed and
devices to automate tasks for workers in the field. simplicity in the cloud.

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Get started with
OutSystems on
AWS today
OutSystems and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
enable organizations to build and deploy
applications rapidly, leveraging a platform
that combines high-productivity application
development and change management
OutSystems on AWS customers can be confident
their apps meet the most stringent requirements
for security, reliability, availability and scalability,
with the capacity to constantly update in
response to business demand.
Click below to learn more about what OutSystems
on AWS can do for your business and to get up
and running on the platform for free.

Contact us: [email protected]

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About OutSystems
As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner,
OutSystems makes it exceedingly easy for IT
organizations to build, deploy and manage
enterprise-class web and mobile applications
on AWS.
The OutSystems platform is a visual,
high-productivity, AI-assisted application
platform that enables every organization
to quickly and securely build, deploy, and
update applications that make the difference
for your organization–all on AWS.

“Our relationship with AWS is

a foundational component for
delivering on our mission to give
every organization the power of
innovation through software.”

Paulo Rosado
CEO, OutSystems

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