S3 Express One Zone Lands in Frankfurt — Up to 10x Faster, 80% Cheaper!

Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! Here's some news for anyone running storage workloads in Europe!

AWS What's New aws.amazon.com

What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance storage class built for a single Availability Zone, designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications.

The story so far

Before this Frankfurt addition, S3 Express One Zone was available in 7 AWS Regions, but it hadn't reached a European region yet.

So customers running services near Frankfurt who wanted low-latency storage either had to pick a faraway region or look at other options.

What changes

With Frankfurt added, S3 Express One Zone is now available in 8 AWS Regions. Customers running services in Europe can now use this high-performance storage class in a region close to them.

Compared to S3 Standard, S3 Express One Zone delivers data access up to 10x faster and request costs up to 80% lower. That makes it a great fit for workloads where speed matters, like machine learning training, interactive analytics, and key-value caching for AI search engines.

Dive Deep

Check the S3 pricing page for pricing details, and the product page and documentation for more on how it works, before you start using it.

Wrap-up

• S3 Express One Zone is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region
• This brings the total to 8 supported Regions
• Up to 10x faster data access and up to 80% lower request costs versus S3 Standard
• Great for latency-sensitive workloads like ML training, interactive analytics, and AI search caching

Good news if you're running latency-sensitive workloads in Europe and want fast storage in a region close to you!