Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced plans to launch a new AWS Local Zone in Manila.
This will complement AWS’ existing infrastructure in the Philippines including Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience, and AWS Outposts, a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises.
AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other services at the edge of the cloud near large population, industry, and information technology (IT) centers–enabling customers to deploy applications that require single-digit millisecond latency closer to end users or on-premises data centers.
The new AWS Local Zone will give customers in the Philippines the ability to offer end users single-digit millisecond performance designed to suit applications such as remote real-time gaming, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning inference at the edge, and more. AWS manages and supports AWS Local Zones, meaning customers in the Philippines do not need to incur the expense and effort of procuring, operating, and maintaining infrastructure to support low-latency applications.
AWS Local Zones also allow customers with local data residency preferences in the Philippines to run parts of their applications in on-premises data centers and seamlessly connect to AWS while ensuring ultra-low latency for these types of hybrid deployments–all while using familiar AWS APIs and tools.
