Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new upgraded Local Zone Edge location in New York City.
“This new Local Zone offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, R7i, M6i, and M6in instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect, and the microsecond-accurate time of Amazon Time Sync in this new Local Zone to support your workloads at the Edge," an AWS statement said.
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. Each Zone is a ‘child’ of a particular parent region and is managed by the control plane in that region.
Local Zones were first launched in 2019 and since then, AWS has rolled out 18 zones in 17 US metros. Local Zones are available in Atlanta, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles (x2), Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, Hawaii, Portland, and Philadelphia.
AWS originally announced the general availability of a Local Zone in New York in October 2021. That original Local Zone – known as us-east-1-nyc-1a – now removed, has seemingly been replaced by the new us-east-1-nyc-2a zone. The company said the New York Zone is located in New Jersey, with its US East cloud region in Virginia as its parent.
The New York location is the latest in a series of Local Zone refreshes expanding the range of services and instances available. Dallas, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, and Phoenix have also seen second-generation Local Zone launches in recent months.
Beyond the US, AWS has also launched more than a dozen Local Zones in international markets across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and APAC.
Despite multiple requests from DCD, AWS hasn't detailed which facilities the Local Zones are hosted in or what compute infrastructure they use.
