AWS Outposts – Compute &

Storage

Hieu Lai Trung & Sumeeth Siriyur

Solutions Architect
AWS

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Agenda
EC2

EBS

S3 on Outposts

Questions

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Build on the same EC2 Instances & EBS Volumes

M5 C5 R5

For general purpose For compute intensive applications For memory intensive applications
applications (media transcoding, gaming servers, (databases, in-memory caches,
machine learning inference) real-time data analytics)

G4 I3

For machine learning inference For I/O intensive applications Local Instance Storage and EBS
and graphics workstations (NoSQL databases, in-memory gp2 volumes for temporary
or transactional databases, and persistent storage
distributed file systems)
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 AWS Outposts Catalog Instance Families
Ratio
Family Focus Clock Speed
(vCPU : Memory)
Compute Optimized 3.4 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum
C5 1:2
(c5/c5d) 8000

M5 General Purpose 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum

1:4
(m5/m5d) 8000

R5 Memory Intensive 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum

1:8
(r5/r5d) 8000

G4
Graphics Optimized
1:4 + GPU NVIDIA T4 GPUs
(g4dn)

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 Example - m5 Instance Sizes

Instance Memory
vCPU
Size (GiB)
.large is
m5.large 2 8
the
m5.xlarge 4 16
smallest
size w.r.t m5.2xlarge 8 32

vCPUs m5.4xlarge 16 64

m5 Ratio m5.8xlarge 32 128

1:4 m5.12xlarge 48 192
m5.16xlarge 64 256
24xlarge is m5.24xlarge 96 384
the host
size
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 Slotting Explained

C5.24xlarge

C5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge
A C5.24xlarge has 96
M5.24xlarge vCPUs and 192GB of
EBS Server memory.

EBS Server
A single ec2 instance
could be deployed
EBS Server
taking up 100% of
EBS Server 96
that capacity….

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 Homogeneous Slotting Example

C5.24xlarge
16 16

C5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge
Resources can be divided
M5.24xlarge
into slots up to the total
EBS Server
aggregate capacity.
16 16

In this example, 6
EBS Server
c5.4xlarge each with 16
vCPUs totaling 96 vCPUs
EBS Server
of the 24xlarge.
16 16
EBS Server

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 Heterogeneous Slotting Example

C5.24xlarge 2
2
2 2

16
Or, we could
heterogeneously slot the
2
2
C5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge
4
capacity in a variety of
M5.24xlarge
4 large, xlarge, 2xlarge,
EBS Server 4
4xlarge and 8xlarge
16 shapes aggregating to
EBS Server
the total physical
8
compute available
EBS Server
(24xlarge/96vcpus).
8

16
EBS Server 8

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 Spare Compute Capacity
• Components such as networking and power have
redundant hardware within the Outpost to
m5.xlarge (4 vcpus) reduce single points of failure.
m5.xlarge (4 vcpus)
C5.24xlarge

m5.2xlarge (8 vcpus) • Customers can elect to include additional

m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus) compute capacity at the time of placing their
m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus) order to facilitate increased availability in the
m5.16xlarge (64 vcpus) event of compute server failure.
m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus)
m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus)
• Spare capacity is always live (not dark) and
C5.24xlarge

m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus) ensuring it is not consumed is the customers

m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus)
responsibility.
m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus)

m5.4xlarge (16 vcpus) • Be aware that when architecting spare capacity,

slotting needs to be considered to ensure that
instances will be able to be relocated.

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 EBS Capacity & Durability

C5.24xlarge

C5.24xlarge
• EBS Storage is available in three tiers of 11TB, 33TB, and
55TB or higher.
M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge
• Above 55TB, you can scale in increments of 15TB (70TB,
EBS Server 85TB, 100TB) up to 100TB. Above 100TB, you can scale in
increments of 20TB (120TB, 140TB, etc.) up to 1PB.
EBS Server
• EBS gp2 volumes on outposts offers the same 99.9%
durability as EBS gp2 in the region
EBS Server

EBS Server

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 Monitoring EC2 Server Availability

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

EBS Server

EBS Server

EBS Server

EBS Server

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 Monitoring EBS Storage Availability

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

M5.24xlarge

EBS Server

EBS Server

EBS Server

EBS Server

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 S3 on Outposts

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 A new storage class for S3 on-premises

Single storage class – Amazon S3 Outposts

Designed to durably and redundantly store data across

multiple devices and servers on your Outposts
S3 Outposts

Stored data is always encrypted using SSE-S3

Support for S3 Lifecycle expiration actions

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 S3 security and access control features

IAM policies Block Public Access S3 Access Points S3 Object Ownership

(always enabled) (always enabled)

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 Data transfer to and from AWS Regions

AWS DataSync can securely and efficiently transfer hundreds of terabytes and
millions of objects between S3 buckets on Outpost and in AWS Regions

Use for data protection in AWS Regions or bringing data to your Outposts for
local processing

AWS Outposts AWS Region

S3 bucket DataSync agent on AWS DataSync S3 bucket

an EC2 instance

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 S3 on Outposts: Bringing Amazon S3 to your premises

Consistent experience 26, 48, 96, 240, 380 TB New storage class for
using the same S3 APIs, of S3 storage per objects on Outposts
automation, and tools Outpost rack
on Outposts rack and in
AWS Regions Up to 100 local buckets Data stored durably
per AWS account across multiple devices
and servers

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 RAM Sharing of S3 on Outposts resources

Enables sharing of S3 capacity across multiple accounts within

an organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Multiple teams enabled to create and manage buckets, access points,

and endpoints on S3 on Outposts

Up to 100 buckets per AWS account on each Outpost

Additional CloudWatch metric: AccountUsedBytes

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 Thank you!

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