AWS Wavelength features

Why AWS Wavelength?

AWS Wavelength is a multi-tenant service providing AWS infrastructure and services hosted within a trusted telco facility. This location allows customers to take full advantage of the data residency and latency benefits offered by our CSP partners’ data centers and network.

You can use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets and carrier gateways in Wavelength Zones. You can also use services that orchestrate or work with EC2, EBS, and VPC, such as Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters, Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB). AWS also works with a suite of third party applications providing simple alternatives to some common services available in the Region such as Network Load Balancer (NLB), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

AWS Wavelength services are part of a VPC connected over a reliable, high-bandwidth connection to an AWS Region for easy access to any of the services available in-Region.

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AWS Wavelength is built according to AWS sovereign-by-design principles providing customers verifiable control over the location of their data as it operates within a communications service provider’s data center. AWS Wavelength leverages the secure AWS Nitro System architecture with hardware-based security and isolation.

AWS Wavelength offers a selection of general purpose, memory optimized, and accelerated computing Amazon EC2 instance families (including T3, R5, M5, C5, G4). For accelerated computing, g4dn.2xlarge instance types feature NVIDIA T4 GPUs and custom Intel Cascade Lake CPUs, and are optimized for machine learning inference and small-scale training. Additionally, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.

AWS Wavelength offers Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gp2 volumes for persistent block storage. You can use Amazon EBS gp2 volumes for boot or data volumes, and attach or detach Amazon EBS volumes to Amazon EC2 instances. It provides snapshot and restore capabilities and lets you increase volume size without any performance impact. All Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots are fully encrypted by default.

You can run Kubernetes workloads in Wavelength Zones as part of your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.

You can automatically distribute your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses using Application Load Balancer, available in select Wavelength Zones.

VPC: Amazon VPCs in an account can be extended to span multiple Availability Zones, including Wavelength Zones. Amazon EC2 instances and related services will appear as part of the user’s regional VPC.

Carrier gateway: AWS Wavelength also introduces a new component to the network setup – the carrier gateway. The carrier gateway enables connectivity from the user’s subnet in the Wavelength Zone to the communications service provider’s (CSP) network, the internet, or the AWS Region through the CSP’s network. Through the carrier gateway and, more broadly, the overall architectural design of AWS Wavelength, customers can realize a more secure and reliable experience from device to cloud. The carrier gateway serves two purposes. It filters inbound traffic for malicious threats, and allows outbound traffic to the telecommunications network and the internet.
 

With AWS Wavelength, you can seamlessly connect to the full range of services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB, in the AWS Region through the same APIs and tool sets over AWS’s private, high-bandwidth network backbone.

You can use familiar AWS tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and others to run and manage workloads in Wavelength Zones as you do for other cloud workloads today. You can use AWS Cost Explorer to monitor the cost of your projects.

AWS Wavelength is compliant with critical industry certifications including HIPAA, ISO (9001, 27001, 27017, and 27018), SOC (1, 2, 3), and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

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AWS Wavelength allows you to seamlessly combine native services with third-party marketplace offerings for network load balancers, object storage, and databases enabling you to build a robust and scalable infrastructure tailored to meet your needs.