# AWS Local Zones AWS infrastructure extensions that place select compute, storage, database, and other resources near population and industry centers for low-latency applications. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026) DevFeed: [AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Esra Kayabali Published: 2026-08-24T16:20:15Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [AWS News Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Web Services](), [AWS Local Zones](), [Amazon EC2](), [Availability](), [Cloud](), [Amazon Elastic Container Service](), [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service]() Tags: [2026](), [amazon](), [amazon-bedrock](), [amazon-ec2](), [amazon-eks](), [amazon-workspaces](), [announcements](), [availability](), [aws](), [aws-cloudshell](), [aws-glue](), [aws-local-zones](), [cloud](), [education](), [launch](), [news](), [resources](), [week-in-review]() ### AI overview This AWS Weekly Roundup highlights Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, which gives verified higher-education students access to premium AWS Skill Builder resources and awards AWS Credits and a certification exam voucher for earning badges. It also covers a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, an additional Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region, and batch instance termination support for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. The supplied article text ends mid-sentence, so the summary covers only the available content. ### Source excerpt During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work, and that the students I meet today may [...] ## AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026) DevFeed: [AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Daniel Abib Published: 2026-07-27T14:54:41Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [AWS News Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Web Services](), [AWS Local Zones](), [Latency](), [Amazon Bedrock](), [Amazon EC2](), [Amazon S3](), [Claude](), [cloud-infrastructure](), [Amazon Elastic Container Service](), [anthropic](), [data-governance]() Tags: [amazon-bedrock](), [amazon-bedrock-agentcore](), [amazon-connect](), [amazon-ec2](), [amazon-s3](), [amazon-sagemaker-ai](), [announcements](), [anthropic](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [aws-local-zones](), [claude](), [data-governance](), [latency](), [news](), [week-in-review]() ### AI overview An AWS weekly roundup covering a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, and selected AWS launches and updates, including Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock. The article highlights local data processing, data residency, low latency, and infrastructure for regional workloads. ### Source excerpt Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn't any single session, it was the energy of a technical community [...] ## Optimizing Trino using spot instances with Zillow DevFeed: [Optimizing Trino using spot instances with Zillow]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Santhosh Venkatraman, Rupesh Kumar Perugu, Brian Olsen Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Trino Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](), [AWS Local Zones](), [Amazon Web Services](), [data]() Tags: [amazon](), [amazon-eks](), [analytics](), [aws](), [compute](), [cost](), [summit](), [workflows]() ### AI overview This Trino Summit 2022 session recap describes how Zillow runs Trino on inexpensive but ephemeral spot instances to reduce compute costs. Zillow uses multiple Trino clusters on Amazon EKS, with dedicated on-demand coordinator nodes and a tuned mix of spot and on-demand worker nodes to balance savings and reliability. ### Source excerpt In this installment of the Trino Summit 2022 sessions posts, we jump into an exciting topic by folks from Zillow about running Trino on spot instances. Spot instances are cheap and ephemeral nodes that lead to reduced overall compute costs. Spot instances are cheaper as they are not guaranteed to remain available. In this session, Zillow engineers talk about how they use Trino on spots to take advantage of the cost savings while handling the transitory nature of spots.