Which service extends AWS infrastructure to customer premises, enabling a hybrid cloud environment?

• A. AWS Outposts
• B. Amazon Lightsail
• C. Amazon EKS
• D. AWS IoT

Answer: (A)

Extending AWS infrastructure to a customer’s premises to enable a hybrid cloud environment is achieved with AWS Outposts. Outposts brings AWS-managed hardware—compute, storage, and networking—right into your data center or colocation space. It runs the same AWS services and uses the same APIs, tools, and management consoles as in the AWS cloud, so you can run workloads locally with low latency while staying seamlessly connected to the rest of your AWS environment. This combination provides consistent operations across on-prem and cloud, supporting use cases like data residency, latency-sensitive applications, and unified management.

Lightsail is designed for simple, easy-to-use virtual private servers and doesn’t provide on-prem infrastructure or a hybrid extension. EKS is a managed Kubernetes service in AWS; it handles Kubernetes in the cloud, and while Kubernetes can run on premises in other solutions, EKS itself is not the on-prem extension. AWS IoT focuses on device connectivity and edge data processing, not extending AWS infrastructure into customer premises for a full hybrid cloud setup.