AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye now generally available
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feature announcement
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. This expansion brings AWS infrastructure closer to end-users in the region, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements. Organizations can now leverage this zone for compute, storage, and networking services, including specific EC2 instance types and S3 storage classes, to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-local-zones-istanbul-turkiye/
