European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a Local Zone Edge location in Vienna, Austria.
Local zones are suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming. Services include compute, block storage, and networking. They also offer OVH customers greater options around data residency.
"OVHcloud is coming to Austria! We are opening our first Local Zone in Vienna today!” the company said on LinkedIn this week. “Our new local data center infrastructure offers Austrian businesses new opportunities to access OVHcloud's public cloud services including low latency and full data control!”
Announced last year and powered by technology acquired from Gridscale, the company rolled out more than a dozen locations across 2024.
The company launched the service in February with two locations; in Madrid, Spain, and Brussels, Belgium. It has since expanded across Amsterdam, Milan, Marseille, Prague, and Zurich.
"The opening of the Local Zone in Vienna is a milestone for OVHcloud's growth strategy," said Falk Weinreich, general manager of Central Europe at OVHcloud. "With the new Local Zone, we offer our Austrian customers the advantages of the public cloud with a local cloud infrastructure on-site, allowing them to benefit from even faster and more efficient cloud services."
OVH also launched multiple Local Zones in the US – including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles – and opened a previously announced zone in Rabat, Morocco, in partnership with Maroc DC.
The group expects to have a total of 42 local zones available by August 2025 and plans to have 100 local zones worldwide within the next two years.
Another nine are due to launch in Europe according to the company’s website, with plans to expand further in the US and Africa, and launch the service in South America and APAC. The company hasn’t said what facilities the zones’ infrastructure will sit in.
OVH has more than 30 data centers in operation and under construction in France, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany, Poland, Singapore, India, and the UK. These are a mix of self-built and leased locations.
Amazon and Microsoft offer their own versions of Local Zones.