AWS provides Local Zones in 3 CEE countries: Czechia, Greece and Poland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its plans to launch new infrastructure called a AWS Local Zone in 3 CEE countries in 2022 - Czech Republic, Greece and Poland. In total, over 30 new AWS Local Zones have been announced. These are the first AWS Local Zones to be established outside the US.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. You can use AWS Local Zones to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for use cases such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, AR/VR, and machine learning inference at the edge.

AWS CTO, Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent 2021

Over 30 new local zones

At AWS Re:Invent, AWS announced we will be launching over 30 new AWS Local Zones in major cities around the world. These new AWS Local Zones will be made available starting in 2022 in over 21 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, and South Africa, and join 16 Local Zones across the US, enabling customers to serve their end-users around the world with even lower latency.

“Today we have announced an expansion of AWS infrastructure into Czech Republic, Greece and Poland. AWS Local Zones will allow our customers to run their latency-sensitive workloads, simplify hybrid cloud migrations, and meet certain data residency requirements. Local Zones will be available in CEE starting 2022. It is an exciting moment for our customers and partners in the region” - said Przemek Szuder, AWS CEE General Manager.

Amazon's cloud computing resources are hosted in multiple locations around the world. These locations are made up of AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and Local Zones. Each AWS region is a separate geographic area that has many isolated locations known as Availability Zones. The AWS Cloud spans 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions around the world.

Each AWS Local Zone location is an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency sensitive applications using AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon File Storage, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in geographic proximity to end-users. AWS Local Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection between local workloads and those running in the AWS Region, allowing you to seamlessly connect to the full range of in-region services through the same APIs and tool sets.