Category: AWS Local Zones

AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts help you keep regulated workloads within specific geographic boundaries. This post presents a framework of technologies, including the AWS Nitro System, AWS Organizations SCPs with AWS Control Tower, and Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring, to help you build auditable, secure architectures for data residency.

Build highly available architectures that span two AWS Outposts racks, or an Outpost rack and an AWS Local Zone, without single points of failure. This post covers three disaster recovery approaches: DNS-based failover, active/active load balancing, and hybrid database replication, with the RTO/RPO trade-offs of each.

Organizations with geographically distributed workforces face a trade-off between security and low-latency access. This post explores how to use AWS Local Zones and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions to deploy virtual security appliances closer to end users, covering key design principles, capacity planning, and traffic routing.

Organizations in regulated industries or with strict information security requirements are increasingly looking to use generative AI. However, they often face a dilemma: how to utilize powerful models while keeping data strictly on-premises or within specific geographic boundaries. The solution lies in deploying self-managed Small Language Models (SLMs) on premises with AWS Outposts or in […]

AWS re:Invent 2025 returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 1–5, 2025. This year, we’re offering a comprehensive lineup of sessions and booth activities to help you build resilient, performant, and scalable applications wherever you need them—in the cloud, on premises, or at the edge.