AWS Local Zones Alternatives (September 2025)

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AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that simplifies traffic management and improves performance by up to 60%.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport service that uses secure devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Snowball addresses challenges like high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns to migrate data as efficiently as possible.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to model and provision your cloud application resources with familiar programming languages.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

Use Amazon VPC Lattice to securely connect your applications and services by defining policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Discover, deploy, and publish serverless applications for common use cases including Alexa Skills, chatbots, IoT, web and mobile back-ends, data processing, and more.

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

Learn about AWS Inferentia an ML chip presented by AWS.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

Discover the tools that you need to simplify and accelerate your migration and modernization with AWS Migration Hub. Learn more about key benefits and tools.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a high-quality live video transport service that delivers video more efficiently than satellite or fiber-optic connections.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to make heterogeneous database migrations predictable. Learn more about the supported conversions and how to download today.

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

Accelerate application development with 100% serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Get 250,000 API requests free per month for 12 months.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

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Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and define how to scale Amazon EC2 capacity to meet the demands of your application.

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

Build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends more efficient AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is MongoDB compatible.

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

AWS Control Tower provides a single location to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment to govern your AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and packaging service that securely and reliably delivers streaming content at scale.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs provides ML practitioners with curated, secure frameworks, dependencies, and tools to accelerate and scale deep learning in the cloud.

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

Learn more about Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra compatible database service.

AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discover the most up-to-date locations of its resources.

AWS Step Functions lets you orchestrate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so that you can build and update applications quickly.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that ingests data from your own apps, SaaS apps, and AWS services and routes that data to targets.

Amazon Pinpoint is a flexible, scalable marketing communications service that connects you with customers over email, SMS, push notifications, or voice.

FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers and microprocessors that makes small, low-power devices easier to program, deploy, and secure.

Amazon Personalize is an ML service that helps developers quickly build and deploy a custom recommendation engine with real-time personalization and user segmentation.

Build and test code with automatic scaling, and pay only for the build minutes you use.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

CoreSite provides the foundation for your hybrid IT infrastructure with high-performance colocation, interconnected data center campuses and cloud onramps.

AWS CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process each time a code change occurs.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Box Zones enables you to address data residency requirements across multiple geographies, which raises the bar for privacy and control in the cloud.

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Megaport offers scalable bandwidth for public and private cloud connections, metro ethernet, Data Centre backhaul, and Internet Exchange Services.

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

AWS IoT Events lets you monitor your equipment or device fleets for failures or changes in operation, and trigger actions when such events occur.