AWS has announced the completion of its first 16 AWS Local Zones in the United States, with plans to open 32 more AWS Local Zones in 26 countries across the world. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that extends AWS Regions to provide compute, storage, database, and other AWS services near major population, industrial, and information technology (IT) centers at the edge of the cloud.
Clients may utilize AWS Local Zones to deploy single-digit millisecond latency applications closer to end users or on-premises data centers. They may utilize core AWS services locally while connecting to the remainder of their workloads operating in AWS Regions using the same elasticity, pay-as-you-go model, APIs, and toolsets.
“The edge of the cloud is expanding and is now becoming available virtually everywhere,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS. “Thousands of AWS customers using U.S.-based AWS Local Zones are able to optimize low-latency applications designed specifically for their industries and the use cases of their customers. With the success of our first Local Zones in 16 U.S. cities, we are expanding to more locations for our customers around the world who have asked for these same capabilities to push the edge of cloud services to new places. AWS Local Zones will now be available in over 30 new locations globally, providing customers with a powerful new capability to leverage cloud services within a few milliseconds of hundreds of millions of end users around the world.”
Cloud Data Residency
Over the next two years, new AWS Local Zones will launch in Amsterdam, Athens, Auckland, Bangkok, Bengaluru, Berlin, Bogotá, Brisbane, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chennai, Copenhagen, Delhi, Hanoi, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Kolkata, Lima, Lisbon, Manila, Munich, Nairobi, Oslo, Perth, Prague, Querétaro, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, and Warsaw.
The new AWS Local Zones would enable clients all around the world to provide single-digit millisecond speed for their applications to hundreds of millions of end users. Customers outside of the United States can use AWS Local Zones to satisfy data residency requirements in regulated industries including health care and life sciences, financial services, and government.
