S3 Express One Zone Reaches 19 Regions! London, Jakarta, Hong Kong, and Cape Town Join
Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! The high-performance S3 Express One Zone is now available in more places!
AWS What's New
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What was announced?
According to AWS What's New, the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions:
- Europe (London)
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
- Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Africa (Cape Town)
With this expansion it is available in 19 AWS Regions.
Why it matters
S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class built for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications, delivering consistent single-digit millisecond data access.
What changes
Users in these Regions can now use fast storage close to their data. Workloads such as machine learning training, interactive analytics, and key-value caching in AI search engines can aim for fast data access.
Dive Deep
The announcement says data access is up to 10x faster and request costs up to 80% lower than S3 Standard. See the S3 pricing page for details.
Wrap-up
- S3 Express One Zone adds 4 Regions, for 19 in total
- New: London, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Cape Town
- Single-digit millisecond access, up to 10x faster and up to 80% lower request costs than S3 Standard
Great for anyone running ML training, analytics, or low-latency workloads in these Regions!