TAMPA - Amazon is launching its fastest delivery option for certain customers in Tampa Bay .

"Prime Air" is launching at Amazon's TPA1 fulfillment center in Ruskin.

The drone delivery service will have the capability to deliver orders to certain residential addresses in Tampa Bay.

How it works

Amazon Prime Air will provide drone delivery service for certain orders to eligible addresses within an eight-mile radius of the Ruskin facility.

Amazon officials say drone deliveries can be completed within 30 minutes to an hour of an order being placed.

"Everything from the time it takes off, to the time it comes back and lands, is all on board and all autonomous via the drone," Josh Brundage, with Prime Air's Commercial Operations, said.

The first Prime Air operations launched outside o

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