# What is Amazon Local Zones?


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 in China.

## Available Local Zone


Amazon Local Zones is available in the 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

## Managing Local Zones


You can manage your Amazon resources in a Local Zone using the following options:
+ **Amazon Web Services Management Console** — Provides a web interface that you can use to manage your Local Zones and create resources in your Local Zones.
+ **Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI)** — Provides commands for a broad set of Amazon services, including Amazon VPC, and is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The services that you use in Local Zones continue to use their own namespaces. For example, Amazon EC2 uses the "ec2" namespace, and Amazon EBS uses the "ebs" namespace. For more information, see [Amazon Command Line Interface](https://www.amazonaws.cn/cli/).
+ **Amazon SDKs** — Provides language-specific APIs and takes care of many of the connection details, such as calculating signatures, handling request retries, and handling errors. For more information, see [Amazon SDKs](https://www.amazonaws.cn/developer/tools/).