Late last year I told you about AWS Outposts and invited you to Order Yours Today. As I told you at the time, this is a comprehensive, single-vendor compute and storage offering that is designed to meet the needs of customers who need local processing and very low latency in their data centers and on factory floors. Outposts uses the hardware that we use in AWS public regions.

I first told you about Amazon RDS back in 2009. This fully managed service makes it easy for you to launch, operate, and scale a relational database. Over the years we have added support for multiple open source and commercial databases, along with tons of features, all driven by customer requests.

DB Instances on AWS Outposts

Today I am happy to announce that you can now create RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts. We are launching with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, with plans to add other database engines in the future (as always, let us know what you need so that we can prioritize it).

You can make use of important RDS features including scheduled backups to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), built-in encryption at rest and in transit, and more.

Creating a DB Instance

I can create a DB Instance using the RDS Console, API ([CreateDBInstance](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_CreateDBInstance.html)), CLI ([create-db-instance](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/create-db-instance.html)), or CloudFormation ([AWS::RDS::DBInstance](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-rds-database-instance.html)).

I’ll use the Console, taking care to select the AWS Region that serves as “home base” for my Outpost. I open the Console and click Create database to get started:

I select On-premises for the Database location, and RDS on Outposts for the On-premises database option:

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