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Create local Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts for high availability
You can use local clusters to run your entire Amazon EKS cluster locally on AWS Outposts. This helps mitigate the risk of application downtime that might result from temporary network disconnects to the cloud. These disconnects can be caused by fiber cuts or weather events. Because the entire Kubernetes cluster runs locally on Outposts, applications remain available. You can perform cluster operations during network disconnects to the cloud. For more information, see Prepare local Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts for network disconnects. The following diagram shows a local cluster deployment.
![Outpost local cluster](/images/eks/latest/userguide/images/outposts-local-cluster.png)
Local clusters are generally available for use with Outposts racks.
Supported AWS Regions
You can create local clusters in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo). For detailed information about supported features, see Comparing the deployment options.
Topics
- Deploy an Amazon EKS cluster on AWS Outposts
- Learn Kubernetes and Amazon EKS platform versions for AWS Outposts
- Create a VPC and subnets for Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts
- Prepare local Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts for network disconnects
- Select instance types and placement groups for Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts based on capacity considerations
- Troubleshoot local Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Outposts