AWS announced the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada, extending core cloud services closer to metropolitan workloads.

Key Details

• Supports Amazon EC2 C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances
• Supports Amazon EBS volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1
• Supports Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect
• Enables single-digit millisecond latency and support for AI/ML inference workloads
• Accessible via zone identifier us-west-2-las-2a in AWS Global View or ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API

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