Amazon has launched a new Edge cloud location in Istanbul, Turkey (aka Türkiye).
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“Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye,” the company announced this week, “bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally.”
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, Frankfurt.
Local Zones were first launched in 2019 in the US. AWS has also launched more than a dozen Local Zones in international markets across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and APAC.
