In early 2022, AWS introduced a brand new factor to its cloud community infrastructure: the native zone.
With elevated give attention to shifting cloud providers nearer to end-users, the native zone supplies low-latency entry to purposes working nearer to prospects.
Google provides an analogous service with its devoted interconnect service, an possibility to connect with a low-latency colocation facility that gives latencies of lower than 5 milliseconds between the workloads in a specified area and the on-ramp location.
OVH launched the identical native zone service within the first quarter of 2024, and Microsoft joined in as nicely with their prolonged zone service launched in the summertime of 2024.
Here is how these providers differ—and what number of have launched.
Native Zone and Low Latency Areas
Notes: Information solely embrace IaaS cloud suppliers AWS, Google Cloud, OVH Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Information as of Q1 2025. Supply: © 2025 TeleGeography
AWS native zones differ from Google’s low-latency amenities in that they’re usually launched in amenities removed from the zone’s dad or mum area, in impact turning into a kind of mini-cloud area for markets that will not have a regular cloud area.
AWS native zones differ from Google’s low-latency amenities in that they’re usually launched in amenities removed from the zone’s dad or mum area, in impact turning into a kind of mini-cloud area for markets that will not have a regular cloud area.
Take, for instance, native zones in Africa. AWS at present has a single cloud area positioned in South Africa. AWS has launched an area zone in Lagos, and one other has been introduced for Nairobi. These zones will serve a choose set of cloud providers domestically and be linked to the dad or mum area in South Africa.
OVH’s native zone service intently resembles the AWS launch of latest native zones, small-scale areas, in markets at present with out areas.
Native Zones Launched
AWS has launched 34 native zones to date—17 within the U.S. and 17 exterior the U.S. The corporate plans to launch greater than 14 zones over the subsequent yr or so.
In the meantime, Google provides low-latency colocation amenities in additional than 70 markets, the place it additionally provides its devoted interconnection service.
OVH launched 19 native zones in 2024, primarily in Europe and the U.S. One other 22 are deliberate for 2025.
Microsoft’s single prolonged zone is stay in Los Angeles, with a second deliberate for Perth, Australia.
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