Amazon EBS launches Local Snapshots for AWS Dedicated Local Zones

You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots in 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 you comply with regulatory requirements.

Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You can also create Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for your account to enforce that snapshots are stored within the Dedicated Local Zone. Additionally, you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and retention of local snapshots.

Local Snapshots are available through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation on Local Snapshots.