A company must run its application using Amazon EC2 but keep the hardware on-site for compliance. Which AWS offering allows AWS infrastructure to run in the company's data center?
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Correct answer: AWS Outposts.
Why this is the answer
AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center, co-location space, or on-site facility. This allows companies to run EC2 instances and other AWS services locally while maintaining compliance requirements for data residency and low-latency processing. Dedicated Instances provide EC2 instances on single-tenant hardware within an AWS Region, not on-site. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service, unrelated to running EC2 on-premises. AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers, which runs within AWS Regions or on Outposts, but Fargate itself is not the solution for bringing AWS infrastructure on-site.
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