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AWS Outposts

Definition

AWS Outposts is AWS infrastructure deployed at an on-premises customer or approved facility. In a residency-aware DR design, it hosts local data-plane resources such as EC2 instances, RDS database instances, and S3 buckets while provisioning/configuration continue through the selected parent AWS Region's control plane. (Source: sources/2026-08-13-aws-recovery-strategies-to-meet-data-residency-requirements)

Recovery role

Outposts supports data-boundary recovery: retain business data physically in-country, replicate it from a primary Region, and restore/launch the local recovery environment. The parent Region should differ from the primary Region to avoid simultaneous loss of primary workloads and recovery control-plane access.

Constraint

Outposts is not a disconnected-operation platform. It needs highly available connectivity to its parent Region and supports only a subset of services available in a Region, which must be checked against the recovery workload.

Seen in

• sources/2026-08-13-aws-recovery-strategies-to-meet-data-residency-requirements — in-country data-plane recovery substrate in AWS Strategy 2.