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AWS Dedicated Local Zones

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  • Dedicated environment and resources with verifiable control over data access, strictly limited to only your organization or community
  • Helps meet digital sovereignty requirements with local compute, storage, and database services
  • Data protection and privacy to keep and protect customer content in DLZ with technical, operational, and contractual measures that AWS provides
  • Edge computing environments and accelerated compute instances with feature-rich, high-performance file systems and storage
  • Support for globally distributed real-time inference, data resident AI and machine learning (AI/ML), large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs), and High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Operational expertise with the option for you to specify security requirements for AWS personnel managing DLZ
  • Familiar AWS services, architecture, APIs, and tools for reduced operational complexity and an experience consistent with AWS Regions
  • Deployed in your specified location, on-premises, in a co-location data center, or an AWS site
  • Reduces the operational work to provision and manage capacity for shared multi-tenant resources
  • Designed for high availability with redundant networking, power, and reliable auto recovery workflows
  • You can also have multiple Dedicated Local Zones for even higher availability and more data protection with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
  • Honors Region and service-level SLA's in DLZs deployed in two or more isolated locations
  • Migration services to help you move and modernize your existing apps and data into your new environment, including AWS Application Migration Service
  • Operates seamlessly with security and management services available in the parent AWS region
  • Offers options to configure infrastructure to inherit the certifications and attestation of its parent Region
  • Follows the AWS Shared Responsibility Model for security of the cloud and security in the cloud
  • Helps meet your specific clearance requirements for AWS operating personnel in the hardware environment, such as residency or nationality
  • Provides data encryption capabilities, monitoring for oversight, plus transparency and auditability
  • With the AWS Nitro system, virtualization resources are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software, minimizing the attack surface, prohibiting administrative access, and eliminating the possibility of human error and tampering
  • Security: Additional access protections including AWS Nitro, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Control Tower, AWS IAM, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CloudHSM, and service control policies (SCPs)
  • Built to AWS and industry-leading security best practices and standards, protected 24x7
  • Define the services, features, detailed configuration, and security requirements for your Dedicated Local Zones and work with AWS on a build-out plan
  • Fully AWS-managed infrastructure, where AWS builds, operates, and maintains the Dedicated Local Zone to reduce operational overhead and administrative burden on customers
  • Launch, acceptance, and orientation including establishing management, access, training, processes, and roll-out to your community

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