AWS Local Zones, a new type of AWS
infrastructure deployment, place AWS compute, storage, database,
and other select services closer to large population, industry, and
IT centers
LA-based customers can now run workloads in AWS
that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in
LA
Netflix, FuseFX, and Luma Pictures among
customers using AWS Local Zones in LA
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the opening of an AWS
Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA). AWS Local Zones are a new type of
AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage,
database, and other select services close to customers, giving
developers in LA the ability to deploy applications that require
single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in LA. AWS Local
Zone customers will be able to use their compute, storage,
database, and other select services locally in LA, while also being
able to seamlessly connect back to the rest of their workloads
running in the AWS US West (Oregon) Region (or other AWS Regions a
customer may be using). To learn more about AWS Local Zones, visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones.
LA-based media, entertainment, and advertising companies have a
significant number of applications that they want to run in the
cloud. Most work excellently in other public AWS Regions; however,
for some of their more latency-sensitive workloads – including
remote real-time gaming, film production, and graphics-intensive
virtual workstations – end-users in LA need single-digit
millisecond latencies. Up until now, these latency-sensitive
workloads required companies in LA to procure, operate, and
maintain IT infrastructure in their own LA-based data center or
co-location facility. And, they had to build and run these low
latency application components with a different set of Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools than the other parts of
their applications running in the AWS Cloud. This resulted in a lot
of extra effort and expense for these companies.
Starting today, customers using the AWS Local Zone in LA will be
able to run various AWS services (including Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store,
Amazon File Storage, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, with Amazon
Relational Database Service support coming in a few months) local
to their LA-based end-users for applications that require single-
digit millisecond latencies. AWS Local Zones are managed and
supported by AWS, meaning customers no longer need to incur the
expense or effort of procuring, operating, and maintaining data
centers or co-location facilities in LA. And, AWS Local Zones
provide customers a high-bandwidth, secure connection between their
local workloads and those running in the AWS US West (Oregon)
Region. This gives customers the ability to run latency-sensitive
workloads nearby to LA-based end-users, while seamlessly connecting
to the full range of services in AWS’s US West (Oregon) Region
through the same APIs and tool sets, without having to buy, scale,
and secure the underlying hardware and software infrastructure.
“Customers are excited about AWS Outposts because it gives them
on-premises access to AWS compute, storage, and database with the
same APIs, control plane, tools, and hardware as they get in AWS
Regions. But, for some of our customers, they either don’t have an
on-premises data center or want to get rid of their local data
center, but still have a need for some of their workloads to run
locally given latency requirements,” said Peter DeSantis, Vice
President, AWS Global Infrastructure. “AWS Local Zones solve this
problem for customers. They allow customers to avoid having local
data centers, let them run the workloads in the Local Zone that
needs to have single-digit latency to end-users locally, and make
it easy for these workloads to seamlessly connect with the rest of
their applications running in AWS Regions. LA is our first Local
Zone, but we expect more will follow.”
Customers can access the LA Local Zone through the AWS
Management Console and API. The first AWS Local Zone is available
today in LA via the US West (Oregon) AWS Region, with additional
AWS Local Zones coming soon.
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service
with over 158 million paid memberships in over 190 countries
enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide
variety of genres and languages. “We are excited about the AWS
Local Zone in Los Angeles, which brings cloud resources close to
creators and filmmakers and cuts down on latency between the
artists and their workstations,” said Nils Pommerien, Director,
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Netflix.
FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects studio with offices in
Los Angeles, New York, and Vancouver providing visual effects
services for episodic television, feature films, commercials, and
VR productions. “We are relentlessly focused on innovating and
leveraging technology so that our artists can focus on creating and
not have technical infrastructure be a bottleneck to the creative
process, said FuseFX Co-Founder and CTO Jason Fotter.” While we
have successfully leveraged the cloud for burstable rendering, we
still have workloads that are limited in their ability to leverage
the cloud due to latency and inefficiencies in transferring large
datasets. Having resources in close proximity to our end users and
the ability to rely on low latency cloud instances would greatly
increase the amount of workloads we could leverage cloud compute
for, and being able to quickly leverage cloud EC2 instances when
needed without transferring data or files into a cloud region
storage system would allow us to more easily provide the experience
that our employees expect.”
Luma Pictures is a visual effects studio with facilities in
Santa Monica and Melbourne founded in 2002 and best known for
creatures, environments, and effects for the film industry. “With
more than 200 artists worldwide, our teams depend on high
connectivity and compute in order to handle our graphics- and
video-heavy workloads,” said Chad Dombrova, Head of Software, VFX,
Luma Pictures. “We’re looking forward to testing AWS’s new LA Local
Zone because its latency-sensitive configurations such as direct
mounting of on-premises storage and virtual workstations will help
our teams deliver the explosive video effects we’re best known
for.”
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