Today, AWS announces the ability to manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones from a single place within the AWS Management Console. With this new capability, customers can now efficiently monitor and manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones globally. AWS Global View enables customers to view resources across multiple Regions in a single console. To get started, customers can find "AWS Global View" in the AWS Management Console and navigate to the Regions and Zones page. The Regions and Zones page displays infrastructure location details, opt-in status, as well as any parent Region relationships, making it easier for customers to manage and monitor their global AWS footprint. This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions. To learn more, visit the AWS Global View documentation, or navigate to the Regions and Zones page here.

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. The AWS Local Zone in Istanbul supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.   To get started, enable the AWS Local Zone in Istanbul (eu-central-1-ist-1a) from the Zones tab in the Amazon EC2 console settings or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.

Today, AWS announces the addition of AWS Local Zones to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console, providing a unified experience across AWS global infrastructure. AWS Local Zones now appear alongside AWS Regions in the Console's top navigation, making it easier for customers to quickly navigate to the Console page for managing their resources in AWS Local Zones. Now, when customers select the Local Zones tab in the Region selector, they will see all opted-in AWS Local Zones in one place. Clicking on an AWS Local Zone takes customers directly to its parent Region's Console page to view and manage resources. This capability streamlines navigation for customers operating across multiple AWS Local Zones parented to different AWS Regions. This capability is available across all AWS Local Zones in public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console. For more information, see the AWS Local Zones documentation.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. 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. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide.  The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.  To get started, enable the Hanoi Local Zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) from the Regions and Zones tab in the AWS Global View or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied to the AWS Region or AWS Local Zone. Snapshot copy copies a point-in-time local snapshot of an EBS volume and stores it in Amazon S3 in the Region or to another Local Zone. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and Local Zones for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Amazon EBS snapshot copy is available in Local Zones that support local snapshots through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation for snapshot copy.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency requirements. The Athens Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.  Use cases include public sector services that need to meet strict data residency requirements, financial applications that require in-country data processing, and real-time gaming and interactive experiences that benefit from single-digit millisecond latency. Customers use the same APIs, tools, and security features available in AWS Regions, with no minimum commitment and pay-as-you-go pricing including On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances. The Athens Local Zone is part of AWS Global Infrastructure, with Local Zones now available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. To get started, enable the Athens Local Zone (eu-central-1-ath-1a) from the Regions and Zones tab in the AWS Global View or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied to the AWS Region or AWS Local Zone. Snapshot copy copies a point-in-time local snapshot of an EBS volume and stores it in Amazon S3 in the Region or to another Local Zone. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and Local Zones for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Amazon EBS snapshot copy is available in Local Zones that support local snapshots through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation for https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html.

Today, AWS announces the ability to manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones from a single place within the AWS Management Console. With this new capability, customers can now efficiently monitor and manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones globally. AWS Global View enables customers to view resources across multiple Regions in a single console. To get started, customers can find "AWS Global View" in the AWS Management Console and navigate to the Regions and Zones page. The Regions and Zones page displays infrastructure location details, opt-in status, as well as any parent Region relationships, making it easier for customers to manage and monitor their global AWS footprint. This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/global-view.html documentation, or navigate to the Regions and Zones page https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2globalview/home#RegionsAndZones.

AWS now supports the Zone Groups for Availability Zones across all AWS Regions, making it easier for you to differentiate groups of Local Zones and Availability Zones. Zone Groups were initially launched to help you identify related groups of Local Zones that reside in the same geography. For example, the two interconnected Local Zones in Los Angeles (us-west-2-lax-1a and us-west-2-lax-1b) make up the us-west-2-lax-1 Zone Group. These Zone Groups are used for opting in to the AWS Local Zones. You can now find the Zone Group for Availability Zones for all Regions in the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeAvailabilityZones.html API. For example, the Availability Zones in the US West (Oregon) Region make up the us-west-2-zg-1 Zone GroupName, where us-west-2 indicates the Region, and zg-1 indicates it is the group of AZs in the Region. This new identifier (such as us-west-2-zg-1) has replaced the previous naming (such as us-west-2). For more details, please refer to the https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-zone-groups-for-availability-zones-in-aws-regions/ and the visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeAvailabilityZones.html API documentation.  

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AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada is now generally available. The new AWS Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. To get started, enable the Las Vegas Local Zone (us-west-2-las-2a) from the Regions and Zones tab in the AWS Global View or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.

AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada is now generally available. The new AWS Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, M7i, R7i, and C8gn instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. To get started, enable the Las Vegas Local Zone (us-west-2-las-2a) from the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/awsglobalview/home#RegionsAndZones:tabId=regions tab in the AWS Global View or by using the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html API. For pricing information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/.

Today, AWS announces the addition of an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, providing a visual way to explore AWS Global Infrastructure. Previously, customers had to scan through a list of AWS locations in AWS Global View. With this new capability, customers can toggle between the interactive map view and the existing list view, making it easier to visualize their global AWS infrastructure footprint.  When customers select the map view, they will see all AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones plotted on an interactive map. This capability helps customers make informed infrastructure planning decisions by visualizing already enabled AWS locations and the full range of AWS locations available to them, all in a single glance. This capability is available across all public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Regions and Zones page in AWS Global View console. For more information, see the AWS Global View documentation.

Today, AWS announces the addition of an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, providing a visual way to explore AWS Global Infrastructure. Previously, customers had to scan through a list of AWS locations in AWS Global View. With this new capability, customers can toggle between the interactive map view and the existing list view, making it easier to visualize their global AWS infrastructure footprint.  When customers select the map view, they will see all AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones plotted on an interactive map. This capability helps customers make informed infrastructure planning decisions by visualizing already enabled AWS locations and the full range of AWS locations available to them, all in a single glance. This capability is available across all public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Regions and Zones page in https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2globalview/home#RegionsAndZones console. For more information, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/global-view.html documentation.

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency requirements. The Athens Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.  Use cases include public sector services that need to meet strict data residency requirements, financial applications that require in-country data processing, and real-time gaming and interactive experiences that benefit from single-digit millisecond latency. Customers use the same APIs, tools, and security features available in AWS Regions, with no minimum commitment and pay-as-you-go pricing including On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances. The Athens Local Zone is part of AWS Global Infrastructure, with Local Zones now available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. To get started, enable the Athens Local Zone (eu-central-1-ath-1a) from the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2globalview/home tab in the AWS Global View or by using the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html?refid=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20 API. For pricing information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4. To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/.  

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. The AWS Local Zone in Istanbul supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.   To get started, enable the AWS Local Zone in Istanbul (eu-central-1-ist-1a) from the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1&refid=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20#Settings:tab=zones;Category=local-zone tab in the Amazon EC2 console settings or by using the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html?refid=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20 API. For pricing information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4. To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/. 

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. 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. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide.  The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.  To get started, enable the Hanoi Local Zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) from the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1&refid=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20#Settings:tab=zones;Category=local-zone tab in the AWS Global View or by using the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html?refid=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20 API. For pricing information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=4 To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/.  

Today, AWS announces the addition of AWS Local Zones to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console, providing a unified experience across AWS global infrastructure. AWS Local Zones now appear alongside AWS Regions in the Console's top navigation, making it easier for customers to quickly navigate to the Console page for managing their resources in AWS Local Zones. Now, when customers select the Local Zones tab in the Region selector, they will see all opted-in AWS Local Zones in one place. Clicking on an AWS Local Zone takes customers directly to its parent Region's Console page to view and manage resources. This capability streamlines navigation for customers operating across multiple AWS Local Zones parented to different AWS Regions. This capability is available across all AWS Local Zones in public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Region selector in the https://console.aws.amazon.com/. For more information, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/getting-started.html documentation.

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g7e/ in AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles, California. G7e instances feature NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) processors, bringing high-performance GPU compute closer to end users in Los Angeles.  For creative workloads, you can use G7e instances to run studio workstation workloads with low-latency access to local storage, and post-production workloads including visual effects (VFX) editorial, color correction, and VFX finishing. G7e instances support enhanced real-time rendering on graphics engines and 2D/3D VFX composition software. For AI workloads, you can also use G7e instances to deploy Large Language Models (LLMs), inference, and agentic AI at the edge.  To get started, opt-in to the Los Angeles Local Zone (us-west-2-lax-1b) from https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2globalview/home#RegionsAndZones:tabId=lz. You can enable G7e instances from the https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#Overview, https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs. G7e instances are available through On Demand and Savings Plans. To learn more, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/features/?nc=sn&loc=2.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are now available in the Chicago and New York City Local Zones. C6in instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are x86-based Amazon EC2 compute-optimized instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, which is a dedicated and lightweight hypervisor that delivers the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. You can take advantage of the higher network bandwidth to scale the performance for a broad range of workloads running in AWS Local Zones. Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists. You can use 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, financial services payment processing, capital market operations, and AR/VR. To get started, you can enable Chicago Local Zone us-east-1-chi-2a and New York City Local Zone us-east-1-nyc-2a , in the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#Settings:tab=zones;Category=local-zone or the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html API, and deployhttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c6i/. To learn more, visit https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/locations/ and see https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in New York City, supporting a wide range of workloads at the edge. This new Local Zone offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, R7i, M6i, and M6in instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect, and the microsecond-accurate time of Amazon Time Sync in this new Local Zone to support your workloads at the edge. Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists. You can use 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, financial services payment processing, capital market operations, and AR/VR. Local Zones are available in the US in 17 metro areas and globally in an additional 17 metro areas, allowing you to deliver low-latency applications to end users worldwide. For more information about where other Local Zones are available, visit https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/locations/. You can enable the new Local Zone in New York City from the https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#Settings:tab=zones;Category=local-zone tab in the Amazon EC2 console settings or the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup.html API. Check out https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/pricing/ for information on Amazon EC2 instances available as On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, or part of Savings Plans in the new Local Zone in New York City. To learn more, visit https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones/.

You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You can also create Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for your account to enforce that snapshots are stored within the Dedicated Local Zone. Additionally, you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and retention of local snapshots. Local Snapshots are available through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshots-localzones.html on Local Snapshots.