Confluent Platform has been validated for integration with AWS Outposts, a fully managed service that allows users to run instances as they would on Amazon EC2 locally in their datacenter or co-location facility. This enables a true hybrid experience with a unified control plane for AWS infrastructure and a unified event streaming platform to build out next-generation event-driven applications. The advantages of running Confluent Platform on AWS Outposts include overcoming challenges due to data locality requirements and running complex hybrid scenarios between on-premise and AWS services. To deploy Confluent Platform on AWS Outposts, users need to create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on top of Ubuntu Linux, configure CloudFormation templates, and set up connectivity with EC2 instances, Kafka brokers, and the internet. The deployment process involves creating an Ansible inventory node, configuring cloud-init, and running Kafka topics and avro console producers and consumers to test the integration.