AWS Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are part of the AWS Global Infrastructure of Amazon Web Services that place infrastructure closer to end users and clients. They act as an extension of an AWS Region into more granular, specific locations.
Key points
- Places compute and other AWS resources close to the client.
- Acts as an extension of an AWS Region to more granular locations.
- Keeps latency to a minimum even if there are interruptions in connectivity to the parent Region.
- Distinct from AWS Outposts, which extends AWS infrastructure into a customer’s own data center or co-location facility rather than an AWS-operated site.
- More than 30 Local Zones are live across six continents, extending compute, storage, networking, analytics, AI/ML, and database services to metro areas worldwide.