# Amazon Web Services Local Zones in Amazon Web Services China
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Amazon Local Zones places compute, storage, database, and other select Amazon resources close to large population and industry centers.

Amazon Local Zones in Beijing helps support the workloads related to intelligent automotive technology for car manufacturers and automotive companies. To learn more, see [Amazon Automotive Cloud Solutions](https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/solutions/industry/automotive/automotive-cloud-solutions/) and [Amazon China Gateway](https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/china-gateway-signup/), a one-stop service to help global customers leverage Amazon Web Services China.

## Available Local Zone
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Amazon Local Zones is available in the China (Beijing) Region in China.

The following terms are identifying details associated with the Local Zone:
+  Local Zone Group Long Name: China (Beijing) 
+  Local Zone Name: cn-north-1-pkx-1a
+  Local Zone ID: cnn1-pkx1-az1

## How Amazon Local Zones differs
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The following differences apply to Amazon Local Zones:
+ The following Amazon services are available:
  +  [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html) 
  +  [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/vpc/latest/userguide/what-is-amazon-vpc.html) 
  +  [Amazon Elastic Block Store](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/ebs/latest/userguide/what-is-ebs.html) 
  +  [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks.html) 
  +  [Amazon Elastic Container Service](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/Welcome.html) 
  +  [Amazon EMR](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-what-is-emr.html) 
  +  [Amazon Direct Connect](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html) 
  +  [Amazon Simple Storage Service](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Welcome.html) 
+ The following Amazon EC2 instances are available:
  +  [C6i](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ec2/instance-types/c6i/) 
  +  [C6gn](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ec2/instance-types/c6g/) 
  +  [G5](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ec2/instance-types/g5/) 
  +  [M6i](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ec2/instance-types/m6i/) 
  +  [R6i](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ec2/instance-types/r6i/) 
+ The following [Amazon EBS volume types](https://www.amazonaws.cn/ebs/volume-types/) are available:
  + gp2
  + gp3
  + io1
  + sc1
  + st1
+ You can use the following Amazon services that orchestrate or work with local services:
  +  [Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html) 
  +  [Amazon EC2 Systems Manager](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/systems-manager/latest/userguide/what-is-systems-manager.html) 
  +  [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) 
  +  [Amazon CloudTrail](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html) 
  +  [Amazon CloudFront](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html) 

## Documentation
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+  [Amazon Local Zones](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html)