Amazon Web Services will launch a local zone in Warsaw

17 February 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the exact locations of 32 new local zones. The Polish AWS local zone will be built in Warsaw. “Poland is one of the 26 countries where local AWS zones will be created,” said Przemek Szuder, AWS CEE General Director.

“Thousands of customers use local AWS zones to optimize applications and smooth transition to the cloud. Soon it will also be possible for companies in Poland. The local zone in Poland will mainly allow for local data storage and improvement of the quality of services provided in real time. New opportunities will be appreciated by new opportunities. companies from virtually all industries,” said Szuder.

AWS local zones are a type of infrastructure in which AWS services, such as computing power, mass storage, databases, container services and others, are closer to local customers. They allow for domestic data storage and processing, as well as the implementation of highly demanding applications. low latency, including, for example, real-time gaming, multimedia and entertainment content, video streaming, engineering simulations, virtual and augmented reality, and machine learning inference at the edge of the network, the company announced.

The new zones will enable local businesses to use AWS’s most popular services while seamlessly connecting to applications running in AWS regions with the same flexibility, pay-as-you-go (pay-as-you-go) model, application programming interfaces (APIs) and toolkits.

Thanks to local zones, AWS customers will be able to offer users one-digit millisecond delay times. It will also be possible to process and store data in the country, which is important mainly for organizations from regulated markets, such as the financial and telecommunications sectors. At the same time, by connecting local installations of the center. data from AWS customers, the zones will also provide very low latency in the case of hybrid implementations, the company further stated.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon, providing cloud computing platforms and APIs on demand to individuals, businesses and governments on a pay-as-you-go basis.

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