Amazon CloudFront launches in five new countries - Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, and Romania

Posted on: Jan 10, 2020

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Locations in five new countries: Sofia (Bulgaria), Athens (Greece), Budapest (Hungary), Nairobi (Kenya), and Bucharest (Romania). Viewers in these countries will now see, on average, up to a 50% reduction in first-byte latency when accessing content through CloudFront. In addition to these new countries, CloudFront also launched its first Edge location in Dusseldorf, Germany. With these new locations, CloudFront now has 216 Points of Presence in 84 cities across 42 countries. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure.