Efficiency and Performance with a Hybrid Edge Architecture for Your Business

Innovating your business is not always an easy task; on the contrary, it means overcoming several obstacles. Many CIOs’ strategy is to upload new applications to the public cloud, benefit from the managed services offered by providers (Cloud Native), and keep existing applications in a private cloud. If there is interaction between them, this strategy is called Hybrid Cloud.

This type of strategy is only valid if there are no latency requirements — meaning applications won’t face performance issues by not being close to each other, and your customers won’t have a poor experience when accessing them (not all regions of Brazil and the world have cloud services). It also assumes there is no need for large-scale data extraction from the cloud (data egress generates high transfer costs) or a need to regionalize data (in some countries, user data cannot cross national borders).

And then, you encounter the problems mentioned above and must be wondering if the public cloud will continue to be part of your innovation strategy. My answer is yes, because we can bring it to you and mitigate most of these problems through Hybrid Edge. In this article, I will discuss how you can benefit from this type of architecture.

Hybrid Edge aims to integrate public cloud services, private cloud services, and local infrastructure. Applications share information according to business needs, allowing companies in various sectors to benefit from cloud services but with local governance.

In the examples below, I will mention how AWS Outposts can be used in your strategy:

• Financial Institutions: Can benefit from AWS Outposts and its local processing in bank branches by decentralizing applications through microservices, improving the user experience for their customers.
• Retailers: Can benefit from AWS Outposts and its local processing in physical stores to reduce dependence on a centralized system and, as a result, eliminate long lines. Additionally, there is no concern regarding hardware depreciation, as management is handled by AWS itself.
• Industries: Can benefit from AWS Outposts and its local processing in factories or distribution centers during the product development process, monitored in real-time through IoT devices.
• Entertainment: Can benefit from AWS Outposts and its local processing in streaming platforms, sending content to various locations in Brazil and the world, distributing regional content to users with high performance and low latency.
• Airlines: Can benefit from AWS Outposts and its local processing in airports for the baggage handling process, monitored in real-time through RFID systems.

Edge UOL has everything you need, and we can help you with the implementation and management of Edge Computing services so you can focus solely on your business.

We are the first company to implement AWS Outposts in Latin America under the Partner Led model, and we recently inaugurated the Customer Solutions Center for clients to test their applications in the Hybrid Edge vertical with all the management ease that AWS allows.