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Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam

AWS launches a new Local Zone in Hanoi, supporting Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots for local data storage and backup

AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer. AWS Local Zones extend core services closer to metropolitan areas, helping achieve single-digit millisecond latency, meet data residency requirements, and support AI/ML inference workloads.

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