Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Local Zones in Nigeria, Peru, and Mexico.

Local Zones act as Edge locations to host applications that require low latency to end-users or on-premises installations. Each zone offers services such as compute, storage, and database, close to population centers for latency-sensitive applications, usually where Amazon doesn't have an existing data center footprint.

“AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas — Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing,” the company announced this week.

First launched in 2019, AWS had previously concentrated its Local Zone rollout in the US. However, at the turn of last year, the company announced plans to launch the service in 32 cities across 26 markets internationally. The company has now launched a total of 15 international Local Zones in 14 markets outside the US.

In early October 2022, AWS launched its first international Local Zones in Delhi, India, and Taipei, Taiwan. Later that month, the company launched its first European zones in Hamburg, Germany, and Warsaw, Poland.

Further Local Zones have since been launched in Argentina, Denmark, Finland, Oman, and Thailand, along with a second Indian zone in Kolkata. This month the company launched Local Zones in Australia and Chile in Perth and Santiago.

Lagos, Hamburg, Taipei, and Muscat were not on the list of cities published in February 2022, but the company later said it had plans for ‘hundreds’ of Edge locations in the future.

Despite multiple requests from DCD, AWS hasn't detailed what facilities the Local Zones sit within or what compute infrastructure they use.

AWS operates around 29 Wavelength Zones – which embed AWS compute and storage services at the Edge of communications service providers’ 5G networks – across seven countries. The company has partnered with the likes of Verizon, Vodafone, KDDI, SK Telecom, and Bell Canada.

Amazon also runs an EdgeFront content delivery network (CDN), which spans more than 310 Points of Presence in more than 90 cities across 47 countries.

Finally, it offers AWS Outposts, which are racks that can be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations.