Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new Local Zone Edge cloud location in Hanoi, Vietnam.. “Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users,” the company said.. “This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally.”. – Greg Hayter.
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 – in this case, Singapore.. Local Zones were first launched in 2019 in the US. AWS has since launched more than a 30 Local Zones in international markets across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and APAC..
AWS has previously told DCD that Local Zones can be hosted in third-party data centers, but can also be hosted in Amazon-owned facilities that are not part of a geographic cloud region.. 2026 has seen Amazon launch a Local Zone in Istanbul, Turkey. The firm recently announced plans to soon launch one in Athens, Greece, that will be available in July..
According to the company’s website, other Local Zones are planned in the Netherlands, Colombia, Belgium, South Africa, Portugal, Kenya, and Norway, though timelines haven’t been shared.. More in Edge & IoT. 13 Feb 2026.
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