Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of a new AWS Local Zones location in Muscat, Oman. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other services near large population, industry, and information technology (IT) centres—enabling customers to deploy applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end users or on-premises data centres. Customers can run workloads with low latency requirements on AWS Local Zones while seamlessly connecting to the rest of their workloads running in AWS Regions.
AWS now has 25 AWS Local Zones around the world, with announced plans to launch 27 more AWS Local Zones globally.
The launch of a new AWS Local Zones location in Muscat gives customers the ability to easily deploy applications located close to end users in the metro area. Having AWS Local Zones close to large population centres in metro areas enables customers to achieve the low latency required for use cases like online gaming, live streaming, and augmented and virtual reality. They can also offer customers operating in regulated sectors like health care, financial services, and public sector the option to keep data within a geographic boundary.
AWS manages and supports AWS Local Zones, meaning customers do not incur the expense and effort of procuring, operating, and maintaining infrastructure in various cities to support low latency applications. AWS Local Zones can also help organisations migrate additional workloads to AWS, supporting a hybrid cloud migration strategy and simplifying IT operations. Customers can connect to AWS Local Zones through an internet connection, private network connections to both AWS Local Zones and any AWS Region.
“With today’s launch of an AWS Local Zones location in Muscat, we are proud to bring the cloud closer to AWS customers, so they can deploy latency-sensitive workloads and store data locally,” said Wojciech Bajda, AWS director of Public Sector, Middle East and Africa. “We’ve designed AWS Local Zones to support a broad range of use cases—from trading applications that need to respond quickly to market fluctuations to interactive live event and gaming experiences. Customers in a variety of industries can now deliver innovative, new services and experiences to their end users, all with familiar AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools.”
The new AWS Local Zones location in Muscat is the newest addition to AWS infrastructure in Oman, which includes AWS Outposts and AWS edge locations that launched earlier this year, giving customers in the country access to faster content delivery and cybersecurity protection services.
