What's NYC's data-residency option, AWS Local Zones NYC vs us-east-1?
Two main options for hosting a Magento store serving NYC customers, picked on latency + cost basis. AWS us-east-1 (N. Virginia), the original AWS region, ~5-10ms RTT from Manhattan, by far the cheapest and most mature. Self-hosted: EC2 + RDS Aurora MySQL + ElastiCache Redis + OpenSearch. Cost: $500, $2,500/month for typical M2 store. Most NYC Magento stores run on us-east-1. AWS Local Zones NYC (new, launched 2023, datacenter physically inside NYC metro), ~1-3ms RTT from anywhere in Manhattan + outer boroughs. Perfect for ultra-low-latency apparel checkout where every ms shows up in conversion data, plus for stores with strict "data must stay in NYC metro" requirements. Cost: ~30-50% premium over us-east-1. We also support Equinix NY1, NY5 (Newark / Jersey City colo for hybrid setups), Adobe Commerce Cloud (managed PaaS on AWS), Digital Realty NYC, Microsoft Azure East US, Google Cloud us-east4, Hyvä Cloud, and Cloudways DigitalOcean NYC1, NYC3.