AWS Local Zones customers

One benefit we have with AWS Local Zones is cost efficiency. Usually, if you are running on premises in your data center, you have to plan for peak capacity. But here at athenahealth, we plan for sustained capacity in our on-premises environment with AWS Outposts and use Local Zones to burst capacity. This is a huge step towards managing our cost effectively, so that frugality is built into the entire design. With Local Zones, we can develop code without having to worry about how to dynamically scale it to meet customer demands.

Running Betr's platform on AWS Local Zones has helped Betr go to market faster in states requiring in-jurisdiction deployment. Working with AWS, Betr is able to deploy its platform in Local Zones in a state without infrastructure investment and maintenance, reducing time to market from weeks to days. When launching into a new state there's also uncertainty around how much infrastructure will be needed to support initial demand. Local Zones enables Betr to elastically scale in real time based on demand, only paying for what we use.

Low latency cloud storage was essential to replace our on-premises storage systems and provide our staff with the information they need for their day to day and collaboration. The Perth Local Zone is in the same city as our university campus and effectively brought AWS closer to our users and resources. The Local Zone facilitates single-digit millisecond access to cloud storage and enabled us to migrate our file storage system from on premises to AWS.

The database is just as critical to edge computing as the infrastructure and network. Apps that are stateful and need to store data require a modern database. And that database needs to be able to operate and synchronize across the entire architecture, not just on a single edge device or endpoint,” said Wayne Carter, Vice President of Engineering at Couchbase. “Couchbase is using AWS Local Zones to provide low latency and single-digit millisecond database access times for applications, ensuring developers’ apps are always available and fast. Using AWS Local Zones, along with Couchbase’s edge computing capabilities, means that our customers are able to store, query, search, and analyze data in real-time with high availability.

As a new carrier, leveraging AWS and its extensive network of partners enables us to differentiate ourselves by operating our 5G network with a high degree of automation, utilizing the talent of AWS-trained developers and helping our customers bring new 5G applications to market faster than ever before.

We have game studios that have players from all over the world. Being able to provide the best online experience to their players wherever they are is a competitive advantage for us. Dealing with high or unstable latency is one of the worst gaming experiences, and as more and more games are monetized throughout the lifecycle, having a consistently great experience becomes a question of revenue generation for game studios.  With AWS Local Zones, Edgegap can now deploy even closer to where the players are, elevating their gaming experience to new heights. For some of our clients, such as Triple Hill Interactive and their fighting game Die by the Blade, being able to host a worldwide 1 versus 1 online tournament in the best conditions is something they simply could not do using traditional service providers. For others, such as Agog and their fast-paced arena shooter Brutal Grounds, every match must be deployed in the best location for all players to provide a fair environment. For the indie developer Cofa Games and their MOBA Awakening of Heroes, being able to leverage an ever-growing number of locations through a simple API call is a time saver. AWS Local Zones gives us more flexibility to enhance the player experience in all these scenarios.

Epic Games and AWS have worked together for over 10 years and continue to find new ways to leverage the full potential of the cloud. With the new NA-Central server region, powered by the AWS Local Zones in Dallas, Fortnite players in the central United States and Mexico can experience the best player experience through low latency gameplay.

The ability to share resources and data between all the ways that we interact with our customers is a key differentiator. AWS makes it easy and practical to accomplish that collaboration across infrastructure.

Since having our workloads on AWS, the ability to be flexible with server provisioning has been second to none. It has improved our time to market by 60% and given us more cost control over our infrastructure.

JackTrip uses low-latency audio hardware and digital signal processing edge servers to enable musicians to perform together live over their home Internet connections. AWS Local Zones makes it easy for us to extend our application into critical markets without having to learn new APIs or tools. We're excited to make JackTrip available to musicians in Boston, Houston, Miami, and additional Local Zones as they become available.

The challenge was that the company’s entirely on-premises data center contained a mix of modern and legacy components. The legacy components were blocking us from migrating to the cloud. The engineering team had to find a way to migrate to the cloud as fast as possible, without compromising agility or performance.

We deploy select portions of our latency-sensitive game servers in various locations across the world in order to reach the breadth of our end users with lower latency. Providing end-users with low-latency gameplay is an important part of ensuring fairness and consistent player experience. With AWS Local Zones, we get the single-digit millisecond latency and proximity in lots of cities across the country, helping us improve end-users latency, reduce churn, and provide end-users with a great experience.

We have a portfolio of interdependent applications running in our existing on-premises data centers. We have been looking to move these workloads to the public cloud for some time. However, it is daunting to migrate such complex, interdependent applications to the cloud at the same time while ensuring a seamless experience for our end users.  AWS Local Zones have solved a significant problem for us here. We are using Local Zones to migrate our complex, legacy on-premises applications to AWS without an expensive revamp of our architecture. With a Direct Connect to Local Zones, we are able to establish a hybrid environment that provides ultra-low latency communication between applications running in the Local Zone and our on-premises installations. In turn, this has enabled us to migrate applications incrementally, simplifying our migrations drastically while reducing any business risk with on-going hybrid deployments.

Thanks to AWS Local Zones, we have managed to penetrate previously inaccessible markets. This has allowed us to implement our business model without the need for on-premise infrastructure, ensuring the protection and efficiency in the management of critical data for hospitals and medical centers around the world.

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 190 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Netflix uses AWS Local Zones to empower remote artistry with low-latency workstations. “By taking advantage of AWS Local Zones, we have migrated a portion of our content-creation process to AWS while creating an even better experience for artists.

Odience cloud-based immersive streaming achieves 80% lower bandwidth for 8K 360 livestreams on AWS LZ at the edge and 60% greater reach & monetization with AWS LZ.

We deploy our cloud-native Prisma Access services in AWS Local Zones across multiple geos to provide lower network latency and better user experience to our customers at a global scale.

We deploy latency-sensitive game servers all over the world to be closer to gamers. Providing our users with a consistent low-latency gameplay is an important part of ensuring they have a great experience. To guarantee a consistent user experience, in the past, we tried to bring game servers closer to players in different cities across the country, but it was too time-intensive and costly. AWS Local Zones are a game changer for us. Now, we can easily deploy and test clusters of game servers in lots of cities across the country, ensuring all customers get a more consistent experience regardless of where they are located.

AWS Local Zones has enabled WFScorp to place critical but latency sensitive workloads on AWS, closer to our main datacenters, to accelerate our cloud migrations.  AWS Direct Connect support in Local Zones has been critical in the success of these migrations.  Prior to Direct Connect support in Local Zones, our complete system migration tests took 58 hours to complete – well outside the business acceptable downtime for these critical systems. With AWS Direct Connect in Local Zones, complete system migration time reduced to 31 hours, with a 72% reduction in the data transfer time which was a key to gain business agreement and confidence in this migration.