AWS launches on-premises EC2 instances for reverse hybrid cloud

In a major departure from its usual cloud-only stance, Amazon Web Services has announced it’s now possible to run EC2 instances with on-premises hardware – but only its own Snowball Edge devices. The Snowball Edge is sold as a data transfer appliance that improves on the base Snowball by adding the ability to use it as local …

[Anonymous Coward]

So...Microsoft were right? Weird.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well I guess at least you don't have to spend the 500k on hardware that you do with Azure Stack

[Lusty]

You probably would if you wanted to run an equivalent number of VMs. Also, Stack isn't the only way MS does hybrid. Also that's not the minimum spend on Stack.

[WhackWakie]

I think this solution technically and deployment scale is more like on-premise Windows server integration with Azure than Azure Stack. Not really an apple to apple.. yet.

[Alan_Peery]

sbe == new attack surface

Add a few sbe instances, gain a new attack vector to your AWS cloud....