Data residency workloads

AWS Dedicated Local Zones (Dedicated Local Zones) are a type of AWS Infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help comply with regulatory requirements. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS Local Zones (Local Zones) offering. For more information, see AWS Dedicated Local Zones.

In Dedicated Local Zones, you can create S3 directory buckets to store data in a specific data perimeter, which helps support your data residency and isolation use cases. Directory buckets in Dedicated Local Zones support the S3 Express One Zone and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA; Z-IA) storage classes. Directory buckets are not currently available in other AWS Local Zones locations.

You can use the AWS Management Console, REST API, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs in Dedicated Local Zones.

For more information about working with the directory buckets in Local Zones, see the following topics: