# DRHCOPS04-BP01 Verify that your Outposts facilities are meeting the requirements to operate within the laws for your regulated workloads
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 Using Outposts rack requires that you procure and manage the data center within the city, state, province, or country boundary for your applications' regulated components, as required by local regulations. 

 **Desired outcome:** Validate that the facilities housing AWS Outposts deployments comply with all relevant laws and regulations governing the operation of regulated workloads. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** When your facilities meet the necessary requirements for running Outposts with regulated workloads, you mitigate the risk of non-compliance, potential fines, and legal consequences. Your organization can gain the benefits of Outposts in a secure and compliant manner. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** High 

## Implementation guidance
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 Verify that your facility meets the requirements for Outposts racks or Outposts servers. For a list of various site requirements, see [Site requirements for Outposts racks.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/outposts/latest/userguide/outposts-requirements.html)