Compute design

The Satellite on-premises or in hyperscaler pattern offers flexible hardware configurations. For the Satellite location, customers can bring their own on-premises hardware or purchase from IBM® or IBM partners or use their AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud infrastructure.

• Satellite locations are made up of compute sources, called hosts, from separate zones of your infrastructure environment. The Satellite host is attached to a Satellite location, and is assigned to the location control plane or to a Satellite-enabled IBM Cloud service to provide the computing power to run the service workloads. The type of service determines the compute resources that are needed to run the service at the location.

• The IBM Cloud service that is set up in a Satellite location is managed from the IBM Cloud region. IBM provides all the resources that are needed to manage the locations.