AWS Local Zones

• Places AWS compute, storage, database, and other selected AWS services closer to end users to run latency-sensitive applications

• Extend your VPC to more locations – “Extension of an AWS Region”

• Compatible with EC2, RDS, ECS, EBS, ElastiCache, Direct Connect ...

• Example:

  • AWS Region: N.Virginia (us-east-1)

  • AWS Local Zones: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, ...