AWS unveils S3 storage classes for Dedicated Local Zones

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage offering is now available via AWS Dedicated Local Zones, one of its on-premise cloud offerings. At the company's Re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS also revealed new S3 solutions: S3 Tables and S3 Metadata. The storage classes are designed to store data within a specific data perimeter to meet data isolation and residency requirements.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is described as a high-performance, single-zone Amazon S3 storage class with single-digit millisecond data access for the most latency-sensitive applications. It offers data access speeds up to 10x faster and costs 50 percent less than the S3 Standard. The One Zone-Infrequent Access is a more affordable solution for data that does not need to be accessed as often.

"We take all of your object metadata and store it in one of these new table models that we talked about. So we automatically store all of your object metadata in an Iceberg table, and then you can use your favorite analytics tool to easily interact and query that data to quickly learn more about your objects and find the object you're looking for, and as objects change, S3 automatically actually updates metadata, so it's always up to date," explained Garman.