OVHcloud launches Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland.

European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a Local Zone Edge location in Zurich, Switzerland, suitable for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming. Services include compute, block storage, and networking.

“OVHcloud, the leading European cloud provider, today announces the opening of its Local Zone in Zurich,” the company said this week. “The new data center infrastructure offers customers in Switzerland new options for accessing OVHcloud's public cloud services with low latency and local data residency.”

"The opening of the Local Zone in Zurich is a milestone for OVHcloud's growth strategy in the Swiss market, which is important to us," said Falk Weinreich, general manager Central Europe at OVHcloud. "With the new Local Zone, we offer our Swiss customers access to a local cloud infrastructure on-site, with which they benefit from even more secure, faster, and more efficient services."