Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions,
see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
(PDF).
Setting up your Outpost
To get started with Amazon S3 on Outposts, you will need an Outpost with Amazon S3 capacity deployed
at your facility. For information about options for ordering an Outpost and S3 capacity, see
Amazon Outposts. To check if your Outposts has S3 capacity on it, you can use the ListOutpostsWithS3 API call. For specifications and to see how S3 on Outposts is different
than Amazon S3, see How is Amazon S3 on Outposts different from
Amazon S3?
For more information, see the following topics.
Order a new Outpost
If you need to order a new Outpost with S3 capacity, see Amazon Outposts rack pricing to understand the capacity
options for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon S3.
After you select your configuration, follow the steps in Create an Outpost and
order Outpost capacity in the Amazon Outposts User Guide.