

# Extend a VPC to a Local Zone, Wavelength Zone, or Outpost
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You can host VPC resources, such as subnets, in multiple locations world-wide. These locations are composed of Regions, Availability Zones, Local Zones, and Wavelength Zones. Each *Region* is a separate geographic area. 
+ Availability Zones are multiple, isolated locations within each Region.
+ Local Zones allow you to place resources, such as compute and storage, in multiple locations closer to your end users.
+ AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility.
+ Wavelength Zones allow developers to build applications that deliver ultra-low latencies to 5G devices and end users. Wavelength deploys standard AWS compute and storage services to the edge of telecommunication carriers' 5G networks.

AWS operates state-of-the-art, highly available data centers. Although rare, failures can occur that affect the availability of instances that are in the same location. If you host all of your instances in a single location that is affected by a failure, none of your instances would be available.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon VPC. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query vpc` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).
