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1# AWS — `aws-regions`, `aws-news`23## aws-regions (regions + Local Zones)45| | |6|---|---|7| Sources | `docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/regions/aws-regions.html` (regions table), `…/aws-availability-zones.html` (state per region, fetched once per run by the parser), `docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/available-local-zones.html` (Local Zones table) |8| Kind / mode | `cloud_provider` / `html`, implementation `cloud_regions`, parsers `cloud_aws_docs_regions_v1`, `cloud_aws_local_zones_v1` |9| Fetch | L1 direct, 0 credits, 3 fetches/run (docs.aws.amazon.com robots.txt: allow all) |10| Schedule | weekly |11| License / attribution | Publicly published provider documentation; facts only — "Amazon Web Services — docs.aws.amazon.com" |12| Verified live | 2026-09-11: 34 regions + 45 Local Zone groups = 79 entities, 79 valid, 0 rejected |1314**Regions.** Table `Code | Name | AZs | Geography | Opt-in status` → code, name, `availabilityZones` (e.g. us-east-1 = 6,15ap-northeast-1 = 4, "3 †" → 3), country from Geography, `externalIds.opt_in`. State from the AZ page16("Virginia, United States of America"). Spot checks: `us-east-1` → US East (N. Virginia), 6 AZs, Northern Virginia /17Virginia / US (precision `metro`); `ap-southeast-2` → Sydney AU, 3 AZs; `eu-central-1` → Frankfurt DE, 3 AZs.1819**Local Zones.** Grouped on `Network Border Group` (one region entity per group, e.g. `us-east-1-bos-1`), zone count =20`availabilityZones`, `externalIds = { kind: "local_zone", aws_parent_region, aws_zone_names, aws_zone_ids }`, name21suffixed "(Local Zone)". NYC zones are filed by AWS under New Jersey (kept as `regionName`).2223**Geo gaps (by design).** Regions whose published place is a state or a country only — Ohio, N. California, Oregon,24Canada (Central), Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Mexico (Central), Bahrain, UAE — get country/state25but **no coordinates** (we do not drop markers on state or country centroids). 12/34 regions; all have `countryIso2`.26No launch dates are published in the docs tables (`launchedOn` null).2728**Not used.** `aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/` (JS/embedded card data, 416 KB),29`api.regional-table.region-services.aws.a2z.com/index.json` (service × region only, no names/geography).3031## aws-news (What's New + About Amazon)3233Feeds `aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/recent/feed/` (100 items) and `www.aboutamazon.com/news/rss` (10 items).34The What's New feed is ~95 % "service X now available in Region Y": those are excluded on the feed title35(`now available in … Region`, Atlassian "* Data Center" products, consumer brands); kept: new/announced Regions,36Local Zones, Outposts, Wavelength, sovereign cloud, MW/GW, "$N billion" investments. `press.aboutamazon.com` no longer37offers RSS (404). Live 2026-09-11: 2/110 items matched → 1 news_event ("second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts"),380 rejected, 0 credits. Daily.39