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.