DRHCOPS04-BP01 Verify that your Outposts facilities are meeting the requirements to operate within the laws for your regulated workloads

Using Outposts rack requires that you procure and manage the data center within the city, state, province, or country boundary for your applications' regulated components, as required by local regulations.

Desired outcome: Validate that the facilities housing AWS Outposts deployments comply with all relevant laws and regulations governing the operation of regulated workloads.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: When your facilities meet the necessary requirements for running Outposts with regulated workloads, you mitigate the risk of non-compliance, potential fines, and legal consequences. Your organization can gain the benefits of Outposts in a secure and compliant manner.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: High

Implementation guidance

Verify that your facility meets the requirements for Outposts racks or Outposts servers. For a list of various site requirements, see Site requirements for Outposts racks.