AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/02/17/aws_32_new_local_zone_edge_miniclouds/
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The cloud colossus [1]announced Local Zones in December 2019, touting them as offering single-digit millisecond latency access to a subset of its cloud services for customers that value speed above all else and can do without the scale of a full AWS Availability Zone or Region.
The first Local Zone demonstrated the idea by splashing down in Los Angeles and targeting customers who run video-editing tools and can't tolerate long waits.
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AWS has not exactly shouted the virtues of Local Zones from the rooftops since, but today revealed its first 16 installations have been completed – and they're all in the USA.
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The cloudy concern will next bring 32 more Local Zones to another 26 nations.
[4]Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops
[5]Orca Security tells AWS fail tale with a happy ending
[6]Akamai buys Linode for $900m
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The lucky cities chosen to host Local Zones are Amsterdam, Athens, Auckland, Bangkok, Bengaluru, Berlin, Bogotá, Brisbane, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chennai, Copenhagen, Delhi, Hanoi, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Kolkata, Lima, Lisbon, Manila, Munich, Nairobi, Oslo, Perth, Prague, Querétaro, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, and Warsaw.
As ever, AWS hasn't offered any detail about where the Local Zones will run. The Register has looked up Equinix's data center list, as that company is a known collaborator with AWS, but the data center giant lacks facilities in many of the cities that will host Local Zones. Perhaps Amazon's cloudy business has multiple partners for this expansion.
Another detail AWS neglected to specify is the go-live date for the 32 planned Local Zones. But, true to form, it talked up their ability to improve matters for both individuals and the economies that host the new infrastructure. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/outposts_local_zone_wavelength_its_a_new_era_of_distributed_cloud_says_aws_architect/
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[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/amazon_q4_2021/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/13/orca_security_tells_aws_fail/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/16/akamai_acquires_linode/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/jaxa_sony_446_mbps_space_network/
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Too big to fail
One of the problems with late stage capitalism is that corporations grow too big, distort the markets and supress competition - the very thing capitalism should be embracing.
Entities like AWS should be regulated so that these behemots would have been split into small independent companies, that other small companies would have a chance to compete with.
Other way to deal with that problem is to require AWS to connect local companies to their network on fair terms rather than having their own local zones.
The cancerous growth of the likes of AWS, Google Cloud or Azure should have never been allowed to happen.
Wot no London?
Seems a bit of an odd omission.
Re: Wot no London?
Must be one of those Brexit Benefits we keep hearing about...
I did think it was an odd omission, but I'm guessing that London/Amsterdam or London/Berlin fit within the transit times AWS are aiming for?
How long before we see an extention to the deal between Amazon and BT, covering 'edge'?
An agreement to transition all of BT's obsolete telephone exchanges to 'Edge' AWS Cloud Data Centres? Many of the exchanges have been marked obsolete in routing plans, and no longer feature in BT's future full fibre plans.
Though, saying this - I'm not sure co-opting the locations to Amazon for edge computing, is more profitable than converting to Yellow Box Storage Warehouses. A combo of Amazon drop-off/collection points + Amazon Cloud facilities?
The Tesco Express model in every town, might be pushing the Amazon 'edge' model a tad far, probably some larger telephone exchanges though.
P.S. Whoever is managing all this, will never be off a plane.