Post #774251
2026-03-18 12:48 UTC
They do that because there are some things that you can’t put in the cloud, like HIPAA protected data. It’s absolutely a rip off, but that was their solution.
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@noahm@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 13:29
You absolutely can [store HIPAA data in the cloud](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/). Latency is one of the big selling points for Outposts. They have customers wanting to control industrial equipment from their cloud resources, but the nearest AWS region is too far away to provide the low latency connectivity they need. With Outposts, they get the cloud, but with on-prem network latency.