INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AWS announced a new local zone today in LA, designed to provide customers in southern California with a set of higher bandwidth, lower
latency compute resources
It not a coincidence that this area is the epicenter of the entertainment industry.
Having a local zone gives LA-area companies, whether
that related to video processing, gaming, ad tech or machine learning, access to a much more localized set of resources, wrote Jeff Barr of
AWS in a blog post announcing the new zone.
&Today we are launching a Local Zone in Los Angeles, California
The Local Zone is a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that brings select AWS services very close to a particular geographic area
This Local Zone is designed to provide very low latency (single-digit milliseconds) to applications that are accessed from Los Angeles and
other locations in Southern California,& Barr wrote
As he pointed out, LA is home to a lot of companies that require this kind of local
compute for gaming, 3D modeling and rendering, video processing (including real-time color correction), video streaming and media production
pipelines.
The LA zone is actually part of a broader US West (Oregon) Region
Those customers who want to take advantage of the new zone will have to opt in by selecting it in the Local Zones console
It will be billed separately, but also includes access to savings plans.
