Defense technology company Anduril is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on an Edge cloud solution for defense and security customers.
The two are launching Anduril's Menace-I with AWS Outposts, AWS' on-premises cloud rack offering.
The system carries AWS Outpost compute racks in transportable shelters, and the companies claim that non-specialized personnel could have them up and running in under 10 minutes.
Menace is a self-contained hardware solution including power, heating, cooling, redundant communications, and compute. It has been designed to handle extended temperature ranges with minimal infrastructure. Menace comes in the Menace-I solution, which can be transported via C-130 and uses three pallet positions, and Menace-X, which is more mobile.
Menace-I can be transported via truck, rail, airlift, or helicopter sling, and comes in multiple configurations from single-rack tactical deployments to multi-rack systems for compute-intensive missions requiring AI and high-performance processing.
Anduril has been offering the Menace-I Edge solution for three years and can be run in "contested and disconnected environments."
With AWS Outposts integrated, Menace-I will now offer AWS' Simple Storage Service (S3) and access to AWS' Project MAVERICK (Mission Autonomy Versatile Rapid Innovation and Capabilities Kit), a field testing platform for autonomous systems.
Anduril has previously worked with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, deploying its Lattice software platform on the OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, as well as pairing its Menace hardware systems with OCI to support operations in both connected and disconnected mobile command and control units, and has integrated OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure into the Menace family of hardware C4 solutions.
AWS Outposts is an on-premises offering that was first launched in 2018, becoming generally available in late 2019. Since then, AWS has launched an updated generation of the system, which supports AWS' seventh-generation x86-powered Amazon EC2 instances, beginning with the C7i compute-optimized instances, M7i general-purpose instances, and R7i memory-optimized instances.