The article announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Chicago, Illinois. Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that bring compute, storage, and other select services closer to large population and industry centers where no AWS Region exists.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The new Local Zone in Chicago supports Amazon EC2 instances (C6i, M6i, R6i, and C6gn), Amazon EBS volume types (gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1), Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect.
• Local Zones are designed for applications that require single-digit millisecond latency, such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, and AR/VR.
• AWS now has Local Zones in 15 other metro areas in the US and 17 additional metro areas globally.
• The article provides information on enabling the new Local Zone, pricing for Amazon EC2 instances, and a link for learning more about Local Zones.