DRHCSUS02-BP02 Before ordering an AWS Outpost, engage with an AWS Outposts specialist to verify that the ordered capacity aligns with your workload requirements
Care should be given to aligning AWS Outposts capacity to actual resource requirements before placing an order to avoid overprovisioning capacity that cannot be scaled down after deployment.
Desired outcome: Outposts configurations will be developed to address workload requirement while minimizing overprovisioning of capacity
Benefits of establishing this best practice: Only the capacity needed to support your workload and resiliency requirements will be ordered, minimizing energy consumption.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium
Implementation guidance
AWS Outposts provide fixed and finite capacity which cannot be quickly scaled to accommodate changes in demand. Outposts are instead configured to meet your unique data-residency requirements, and it is important to work with your AWS account team to engage AWS hybrid specialists to verify that both workload and sustainability requirements are considered to develop the most efficient Outposts configuration before ordering.
Because Outposts are frequently used to migrate existing
physical or virtual workloads from on-premises data-centers, and
because these workloads are commonly over-provisioned, use tools
such as the
AWS Migration Evaluator
