European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a Local Zone Edge location in Seattle, Washington.
Announced by OVHcloud US this week, the new zone is targeted for workloads with latency-sensitive services such as real-time analytics, e-commerce websites, content delivery networks (CDN) for replay and streaming videos, and cloud gaming.
Services include compute, block storage, and networking. They also offer OVH customers greater options around data residency.
OVH first announced plans for Edge zones last year. Powered by technology acquired from Gridscale, the company rolled out more than a dozen locations across 2024 and continued launching new sites in 2025.
After launching in Europe and North Africa last year, the company also quickly expanded into the US.
The company has Edge locations in New York, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles.
“We are excited to continue expanding our network of Local Zones in the US, with the addition of Seattle,” said Jeffrey Gregor, general manager of OVHcloud US. “These Local Zones are critical in helping businesses scale their infrastructure and optimize cloud performance, while maintaining a high level of security and compliance.”
Future Local Zones are planned in the US across Salt Lake City, Phoenix, St. Louis, and Boston, according to the company’s website.
The group expects to have a total of 42 Local Zones globally available by August 2025 and plans to have 100 locations worldwide within the next two years.
Another seven locations are due to launch in Europe, according to the company’s website, with plans to expand further in North America and Africa, and launch the service in South America, the Middle East, and APAC.
The company hasn’t said what facilities the zones’ infrastructure sits in.
As well as the Local Zones, OVH has more than 40 core data centers in operation and under construction in France, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany, Poland, Singapore, India, Italy, and the UK. These are a mix of self-built and leased locations.
