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AWS announces general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada

AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Las Vegas, supporting EC2 instances, EKS, and other services

AWS has announced the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada. This Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon EBS volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect. AWS Local Zones extend core services such as compute, storage, and networking closer to metropolitan areas worldwide, enabling single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meeting data residency requirements, supporting AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerating migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions.

Why it matters

AWS Local Zones deploy infrastructure closer to urban areas, providing faster performance and data residency

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