The new Amazon Web Services Outposts “delivers fully managed AWS infrastructure, native AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer on premises facility,” AWS says. That makes it an important development in edge computing, edge computing as a service and illustrates the decisions connectivity service providers will have in building a relevant role in edge computing.
Mobile edge computing and multi-service edge computing (fixed networks) rightly are viewed as potential revenue sources for connectivity providers. But it remains quite unclear what specific connectivity provider roles are possible.
That especially is true now that some cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services are rolling out their own edge computing services that create edge computing nodes inside enterprise data centers or telco facilities.
Rack space might be a nice add-on business, but it is not the revenue stream edge computing on demand should represent.
“Customers have been asking for an AWS option on-premises to run applications with low latency and local data-processing requirements,” AWS says, and AWS Outposts is a service that brings the same infrastructure, APIs, and tools that customers use in AWS to virtually any customer on-premises facility.
“One of the most common scenarios is applications that need single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or onsite equipment,” says AWS.
The point is that it remains unclear how many roles connectivity providers will wind up occupying as edge computing becomes more established. Roles might be more limited, in practice, than many had hoped.
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