Local zones in aws11/12/2023 ![]() ![]() We talked to Burgin about the introduction of local zones and what kinds of workloads we are going to see in a local zone. What exactly is the purpose of the local zones and what we can expect we have found out for you in an interview with AWS Director and Technical Advisor, Joshua Burgin. Currently, the local zone is only available by invitation and in preview. The first city with a local zone is Los Angeles, a real metropolis with enough potential for Amazon to try this new product. Local zones are ideal for workloads with single-digit latency. Technically there is no difference to reduce this latency it’s really about the distance. ![]() If your company is located in a city where AWS already has a region, then you already have a local zone. They build a data center in a city where they currently have no region and then call it a local zone. That’s what AWS will do with local zones. If the speed of light is the limiting factor, especially when we talk about latency, then the solution is to reduce the distance to the customer. That can also be an obstacle, more about that later. Plus a possible connection with the customer’s provider. ![]() That is the limiting factor between the customer and the nearest AWS region. The obstacle they can’t just take away is the speed of light, the light shooting through the fiber-optic cable. The cloud is so scalable that you can start up thousands or even tens of thousands of machines at the push of a button. The obstacle of computing power, memory and storage has been a thing of the past for several years. What AWS does with such a local zone is to reduce the latency between the customer and the AWS workloads. With AWS Local Zones, Amazon Web Services is going to expand their network significantly in the coming years. However, for good listeners, it heralds the next dominant development. The introduction of local zones was hidden in Andy Jassy’s three-hour keynote during AWS re:Invent. In addition to introducing one cloud service after another, they also don’t sit still with their infrastructure planning. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), they don’t like sitting still. ![]()
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