Run applications on AWS infrastructure closer to your end users and workloads

Benefits

Run applications in more locations

Extend AWS services to metro areas across world to run latency-sensitive applications closer to your users and workloads and meet data residency needs for your regulated workloads.

Consistent AWS experience

Use the familiar AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to provide a truly consistent developer and IT operations experience.

Flexible and Scalable

You can start small and scale as your needs grow with on-demand scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing.

Use cases

Low latency applications

Deliver high-quality experience for interactive applications that require low latency to your users. Build and deploy applications close to end users in AWS Local Zones across the world to enable real-time gaming, live streaming, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), virtual workstations, independent software vendor (ISV) application acceleration, and more.

Data residency

Data sometimes needs to remain in a particular country, state, or municipality for regulatory, contractual, or information security reasons. This is often the case with betting & gaming, financial services, healthcare, and other highly regulated industries. With AWS Local Zones, you can control where your workloads run and where your data resides, with low-friction movement between cloud and edge locations to easily adapt to regulatory changes.

Migration and modernization

Legacy on-premises applications often have latency-sensitive system dependencies, making them difficult to migrate. Migrate segments of your applications to a nearby AWS Local Zone, while still meeting the low-latency requirements in the hybrid deployment until you are ready to fully migrate.