AWS Outposts is a comprehensive managed service that extends the capabilities of AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to nearly any data center, co-location site, or on-premises environment, ensuring a seamless hybrid cloud experience. It excels for workloads that necessitate low-latency connectivity to local systems, on-site data processing, data residency compliance, and the migration of applications with dependencies on local resources. With AWS compute, storage, database, and additional services operating locally on Outposts, users can utilize the complete suite of AWS offerings available in their specified Region to develop, oversee, and scale their on-premises applications with the familiar AWS ecosystem. Additionally, there is an upcoming VMware variant of AWS Outposts, which will provide a fully managed VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) operating on the AWS Outposts infrastructure in customer environments. This enhancement aims to further integrate VMware’s capabilities with AWS, allowing organizations to leverage both platforms efficiently.