Edge Computing with

AWS Infrastructure
Solutions
AWS Outposts | AWS Wavelength | AWS Local Zones

In an ever more connected world where we are all

reliant on applications anywhere and everywhere,
the need for companies to have cloud infrastructure Edge computing at AWS
and services where they need it the most has never provides infrastructure and
been greater. While the cloud is growing rapidly and software that move data
AWS Regions continue to roll out quickly, there are processing and analysis as
workloads where AWS infrastructure and services close to the end-point as
need to be brought even closer, in order to deliver necessary. This includes
low-latency, address data residency needs and deploying AWS managed
unique local data processing requirements as well hardware and software
as data migration and IT modernization scenarios.
to locations outside AWS
AWS infrastructure solutions at the edge allow
data centers, and even
enterprises across all industries the opportunity to
onto customer-owned
bring AWS services closer to where it’s needed, such
devices themselves.
as on-premises with AWS Outposts, in large metro
areas with AWS Local Zones, or at the edge of 5G
networks with AWS Wavelength.

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The growing importance for edge computing in modern enterprises
Edge computing is essential for many existing and emerging applications, which need local processing of information
to reduce the volume of traffic transported back to centralized data centers or the cloud for processing. By enabling
compute capabilities closer to end users, businesses can provide new and innovative applications, and deliver immersive
experiences to a wide audience. Yet, enterprises and developers face very real challenges in reaching their end goals of
great experiences for customers, be it technical or regulatory reasons.

Enterprise challenges with edge computing:

1: Using different services, APIs and tools to run and consistently manage applications at the edge than what’s in the
cloud or on-premises
2: Procuring, managing and maintaining infrastructure (saving on staff or IT resources at edge locations)
3: Keeping some data at the edge for compliance, data processing/size or cost reasons

Edge computing with AWS infrastructure solutions

With global infrastructure that spans of 77 Availability Zones in 24 AWS Regions, AWS enables developers to serve end-
users with low latencies worldwide. However, emerging interactive applications, like game streaming, virtual reality, and
real-time rendering, require even lower latencies, sometimes in the single-digit milliseconds. In addition, use-cases like
industrial automation, healthcare and autonomous vehicles require data processing to take place close to the source to
conserve resources like device memory and power. In many use cases where applications involve collecting a lot of data,
processing that data closer to the source saves on network bandwidth as well. Easy access to feature-rich cloud services
at the 5G edge will enable modernization opportunities for enterprises, ISVs, and start-ups to develop innovative 5G
applications and create new business segments.

AWS edge computing services provide infrastructure and software that move data processing and analysis as close to
the endpoint as necessary. These include deploying AWS-managed hardware and software in locations outside AWS
datacenters, and even onto customer-owned devices themselves. AWS gives you more edge specific capabilities than
any other cloud provider. If you’re already running your applications on Intel® Xeon® servers on-premises and benefiting
from Intel software optimizations and tuning for enterprise applications, you’ll enjoy the same robust performance on

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Outposts as well as the AWS cloud.

Why AWS for edge infrastructure solutions?

• Use the most extensive global cloud infrastructure – • Securely connect and manage devices at scale
AWS is ushering in a new era of interactive – Use managed hardware at edge locations, with
applications and immersive experiences built for the support for more security standards and compliance
edge and has the largest cloud infrastructure footprint certifications than any other offering.
of any provider - meaning AWS can serve more • Use the deepest range of services and capabilities –
customers with the services they need and where they AWS has 175+ cloud and device services, more than
need it. For the areas not covered AWS supplements any other cloud provider, plus capabilities for specific
with its edge infrastructure solutions of AWS Outposts, edge use cases.
AWS Wavelength and AWS Local Zones. AWS • Build more quickly and reduce costs – Use a single
infrastructure is designed to meet the most stringent programming model for the cloud and local devices.
security requirements in the world and has the highest Build an application once and deploy it on the cloud
network availability of any cloud provider. or at the edge with consistent performance. This
• Move cloud closer to the endpoint – Extend to the significantly shortens the development lifecycle and
edge, beyond Regions, with the same network, control reduces development costs.
plane, APIs, and AWS services in each deployment.
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AWS cloud infrastructure solutions for supporting applications on-premises,
in large metro centers and at the 5G Edge

AWS is helping millions of customers to innovate fast and lower costs. Yet some customers need compute, storage,
analytics, and machine learning services beyond where AWS Regions exist today. Customers with modernization at the
heart of their strategy need a consistent cloud infrastructure and AWS brings its services closer to customers through:

• On-premises solutions (AWS Outposts)

• Metro area solutions (AWS Local Zones)
• 5G Edge solutions (AWS Wavelength)

AWS has edge-specific capabilities to suit your needs

Need an on-premises hybrid solution?

AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS
services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-
premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience where a business needs
it most. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to
on-premises systems, local data processing, or local data storage, as well as for
data residency needs. Outposts meets the modernization challenge with its hybrid
model and is perfect for migrating existing and legacy data.

Customers want to be able to run AWS compute and storage on-premises, and also easily and seamlessly integrate
these on-premises workloads with the rest of their applications in the AWS cloud. That capability has not been possible
until now because solutions have lacked the same APIs, tools, hardware, and functionality across on-premises and the
cloud to deliver a true hybrid experience. If you’re already running your applications on Intel® Xeon® servers on-premises
and benefiting from Intel software optimizations and tuning for enterprise applications, you’ll enjoy the same robust
performance on Outposts as well as the AWS cloud.

AWS Outposts solves these challenges by delivering the same hardware used in AWS public region data centers to
bring AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models on-premises. With AWS Outposts customers can choose from
a range of compute, storage, and graphics-optimized EC2 instances, both with and without local storage options, and
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume options. Customers can then easily run a broad range of AWS services locally,
including Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS),
Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), and
can connect directly to regional services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets or Amazon DynamoDB tables
through private connections.

AWS delivers and installs an Outpost to customers and handles all maintenance,
including automatically updating and patching infrastructure and services as part of
being connected to an AWS Region, so developers and IT professionals do not have
to worry about procuring or maintaining their Outpost.

Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/

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Need ultra-low latency experiences at the edge of 5G networks?
AWS Wavelength
AWS Wavelength is an AWS infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge
computing applications. Wavelength Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments
that embed AWS compute and storage services within communications service
providers’ (CSP) data centers at the edge of the 5G network. When applications are
deployed inside a Wavelength Zone, traffic from 5G devices can reach application
servers without leaving the telecommunications network. This avoids the latency
that would result from application traffic having to traverse multiple hops across
the internet to reach their destination, enabling customers to take full advantage
of the latency and bandwidth benefits offered by modern 5G networks.

AWS Wavelength empowers developers to build applications that deliver single-

digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users. By achieving such
low latency use cases such as gaming and live video streaming, machine learning
inference at the edge, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), ML-assisted
diagnostics for healthcare, connected vehicles, smart factories and more.

Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength/

Need AWS infrastructure and services at a local level?

AWS Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places
AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large
population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. With AWS
Local Zones, you can easily run latency-sensitive portions of applications local to
end-points and resources in a specific geography, delivering single-digit
millisecond latency for use cases such as media & entertainment content creation,
real-time gaming, reservoir simulations, electronic design automation, machine
learning and more.

Each Local Zone location is an extension of an AWS Region where customers can
use AWS services such as EC2, VPC, EBS, Amazon FSx, Elastic Load Balancing,
Amazon EMR, and RDS. Local Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection
between local workloads and those running in the AWS Region, allowing you to
seamlessly connect to other AWS workloads and to the full range of in-region
services through the same APIs and tool sets. AWS Local Zones are managed and
supported by AWS, bringing all the elasticity, scalability, and security of the cloud.

Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/
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Security at the edge
Security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS Outposts’ infrastructure similar to how it secures
customer, you benefit from a data center and network infrastructure in the cloud today. Customers are
architecture that is built to meet the requirements of responsible for securing their applications running
the most security-sensitive organizations. Security is a on Outposts as they do in the Region today. With
shared responsibility between AWS and you. The shared Outposts, customers are also responsible for the
responsibility model describes this as security of the physical security of their Outpost racks, and for
cloud and security in the cloud and on-prem: ensuring consistent networking to the Outpost.

• Security of the cloud – AWS is responsible for • Security in the cloud – Your responsibility is
protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS services determined by the AWS service that you use. You
in the AWS Cloud. AWS also provides you with are also responsible for other factors including
services that you can use securely. Third-party the sensitivity of your data, your company’s
auditors regularly test and verify the effectiveness requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
of our security as part of the AWS Compliance
Programs. AWS is responsible for protecting

AWS enables innovative use cases

AWS infrastructure at the edge, either on-premises, in large metro areas or at the edge of 5G networks, is enabling
all-new use cases that directly benefit from lower latencies and satisfies the requirements of local data processing and
data residency needs.

AR/VR
By accessing compute resources on at the edge AR/VR applications can reduce Motion to Photon
(MTP) latencies to meet the <20 ms benchmark needed to offer a realistic user experience. AWS
enables offering AR/VR in locations where it is not desirable or possible to run local server systems.

Connected vehicles
Cellular Vehicles to Everything (C-V2X) is an increasingly important platform for enabling intelligent driving,
real-time HD maps, road safety, and more. Low latency access through AWS edge infrastructure for data
processing and analytics enables real-time monitoring of data from sensors for secure connectivity, in-car
telematics, and autonomous driving.

Healthcare
Lower latencies improve processing in health management systems (HMS), the cornerstone of healthcare
modernization. Locally stored medical data can be rapidly retrieved and processed. Also, AI/ML-driven
video analytics and image matching solutions help doctors speed up diagnosis of observed conditions,
such as recognizing polyps during colonoscopies. The image or video streams from medical devices can be
processed at the edge and the response returned to the medical device for the surgeon to use.

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 Manufacturing
Process control systems (e.g. MES and SCADA) are latency sensitive and need to run close to factory floor
equipment. Also, industrial automation applications use ML inference at the edge to analyze images and
videos, in order to detect quality issues on fast-moving assembly lines and trigger actions to remediate the
problem. AWS edge infrastructure enables all these applications to be achieved through modernizing the
IT behind them.

Media and entertainment

AWS edge infrastructure solutions provide the ultra-low latency needed to livestream high-resolution video
and high-fidelity audio, as well as to embed interactive experiences into live video streams. Additionally,
real-time video analytics provide the ability to generate real-time stats that can enhance live event
experiences. You can also access the latest GPU innovations on premises for graphics processing, audio and
video rendering, and other media applications.

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AWS infrastructure solutions powered by

Intel® processors.
Build on the same Amazon EC2 instances on premises AWS Wavelength - Wavelength Zones currently
powered by Intel® technologies. Amazon EC2 instances support instances for applications that need cost
provide secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. effective general purpose compute, and for accelerated
EC2 is designed to make cloud computing easier and compute (such as game streaming and ML inference at
more scalable for developers. the edge that require GPUs), there’s even more options.

AWS Outposts - You can choose from a range of AWS Local Zones - AWS Local Zones offer a selection
pre-validated Outposts configurations designed to meet of general purpose, compute optimized, memory
a variety of application needs. You can also contact optimized, accelerated computing, and storage
AWS to create a customized configuration designed for optimized EC2 instance families.
your unique application needs. AWS Outposts catalog
includes the latest generation Intel powered EC2
instance types with or without local instance storage.

Intel® Xeon®
Scalable processors
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PARTNERS
Below are some highlighted technology and ISV partners.

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