AWS has launched its first Local Zone in Hanoi, marking its initial infrastructure deployment in Vietnam to support data residency and low-latency cloud computing.
The new facility allows organisations in highly regulated sectors, such as banking, fintech, and healthcare, to store and process data locally.
This infrastructure helps enterprises comply with domestic data localisation requirements while reducing the operational burden of maintaining private servers.
The Hanoi deployment offers single-digit millisecond latency, which supports applications requiring real-time responsiveness.
This capability benefits financial services executing high-frequency trades, as well as gaming and live-streaming companies operating real-time digital platforms.
“The AWS Local Zone in Hanoi puts world-class compute and storage where it matters most: closer to their customers, making sure Vietnamese organisations have what they need to build, scale, and compete without compromise,”
said Jeff Johnson, Managing Director, ASEAN, AWS.
The launch is part of the global network expansion from AWS, offering a local connection point that links Vietnamese enterprises to the global cloud network.
For regional fintechs and financial institutions operating across Southeast Asia, the facility provides a standardised environment to deploy workloads across borders using identical APIs and management tools.
Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), said,
“The launch of the AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam will provide a low-latency, secure cloud computing platform and contribute to supporting Vietnamese businesses’ technology needs.”
The facility provides access to core cloud services, including compute-optimized and memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
It is also among the first globally to offer localised object storage through Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and local snapshot capabilities via Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
Several Vietnamese digital platforms and financial institutions have already integrated the infrastructure into their operations.
These include commercial banks such as VIB, VPBank, and Techcombank, fintech developers like Trusting Social, and green mobility networks such as Green SM.
AWS operates the Hanoi facility on an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model, removing the requirement for upfront capital investments or long-term infrastructure contracts.
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