AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada is now generally available. The new AWS Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect.
AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide.
To get started, enable the Las Vegas Local Zone (us-west-2-las-2a) from the Regions and Zones tab in the AWS Global View or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.
Categories: marketing:marchitecture/global-infrastructure,general:products/aws-local-zones,marketing:marchitecture/compute
Source: Amazon Web Services
