# Welcome
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 AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, APIs, and tools to customer premises. By providing local access to AWS managed infrastructure, AWS Outposts enables customers to build and run applications on premises using the same programming interfaces as in AWS Regions, while using local compute and storage resources for lower latency and local data processing needs.

You can use certain Amazon EC2 API actions for AWS Outposts. For more information on these API actions, see [AWS Outposts actions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/operation-list-outposts.html) in the *Amazon EC2 API Reference*.

This document was last published on August 31, 2026. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Outposts. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query outposts` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).