AWS Outposts: announcement, rollouts, and enterprise adoption (2018–2022)

1. AWS announces Outposts in private preview

   Nov 28, 2018Labels: AWS Outposts

   • AWS Press
   • Ars

2. AWS releases Outposts to general availability

   Dec 3, 2019Labels: AWS Outposts

   • AWS What s
   • AWS Press

3. Early GA customers publicize Outposts use cases

   Dec 3, 2019Labels: Early customers

   • AWS Press

4. Outposts expands shipping and installation locations

   Jan 21, 2020Labels: Regional expansion

   • AWS What s

5. AWS adds smaller Outposts 1U and 2U form factors

   Dec 1, 2020Labels: Outposts 1U

   • AWS Press
   • DCD

6. VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts reaches GA

   Oct 5, 2021Labels: VMware Cloud

   • AWS What s
   • AWS News Blog

7. Outposts servers highlighted for broader edge use

   Dec 1, 2021Labels: Edge deployments

   • DCD
   • Forbes

8. EKS local clusters on Outposts become generally available

   Sep 20, 2022Labels: EKS local

   • AWS What s
   • AWS Docs

9. AWS adds new Outposts options for telecom workloads

   Mar 2, 2025Labels: Telecom offerings

   • AWS Press

10. AWS introduces second-generation Outposts racks

    Apr 29, 2025Labels: Second-generation racks

    • AWS News Blog
    • DCD

11. Outposts adds support for booting from external storage arrays

    Jul 17, 2025Labels: External storage

    • AWS What s

12. Second-generation Outposts racks expand to more countries

    Jan 21, 2026Labels: Geographic expansion

    • AWS What s
    • AWS Outposts