In October 2026, AWS expanded the availability of its Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class, a single-Availability Zone high-performance option designed for latency-sensitive and frequently accessed data, to four more regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Jakarta and Hong Kong), and Africa (Cape Town).
S3 Express One Zone offers data access speeds up to ten times faster and request costs up to 80% lower than the S3 Standard storage class. It targets workloads requiring rapid access such as machine learning training and interactive analytics, now broadening its geographic footprint to 19 AWS Regions worldwide.
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Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions ↗Source published 2026-10-12. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.