Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its footprint with a new availability zone in Europe and an AWS Local Zone in the US.

Both launched this week; the availability zone (AZ) is part of the eu-west-2 region, based in London, UK.

The AZ offers AI and machine learning capacity, including Amazon EC2, Trn3, and P6 accelerated instances, alongside general-purpose compute.

While named "London," most of the data centers are actually near Bristol in the UK.

Details about the location of the AZ's physical footprint have not been provided. AZs are either data centers or clusters of data centers located in geographically redundant locations within a cloud region, meaning the site is proximal to other availability zones in the London cloud region but will not be impacted by localized incidents.

AWS is currently developing data centers in Buckinghamshire, which lies north of London, and in December 2025 purchased a site in Oxfordshire. It has also previously been linked to projects in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire; Hayes, Middlesex; Swindon, Wiltshire; and Bracknell, Berkshire.

AWS adds Local Zone in Vegas

In addition to the European expansion, AWS has announced the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

The Local Zone is a child of the US West Oregon cloud region.

The Las Vegas location supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect.

Local Zones were first launched in 2019 in the US. AWS has since launched more than 30 Local Zones in international markets across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and APAC.

AWS has previously told DCD that Local Zones can be hosted in third-party data centers, but can also be hosted in Amazon-owned facilities that are not part of a geographic cloud region.

This year has seen Amazon launch a Local Zone in Istanbul, Turkey; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Athens. Greece.