3-Year Anniversary – News About AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

November 2025 marked three years since we launched the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, bringing AWS infrastructure to Switzerland with three availability zones and two AWS Direct Connect locations. Since then, we’ve demonstrated our commitment to Swiss customers by expanding our service portfolio from 58 to 173 services – a growth driven by customer demand and the need for comprehensive cloud capabilities with Swiss data residency.

Whether you’re building new applications, need to meet strict compliance requirements, or want to future-proof your security architecture, this post walks you through the major additions to the Europe (Zurich) Region. Following our previous updates throughout H1 2023, Q3 2023, Q1 2024, and our 2Y Anniversary post, we’re pleased to share the latest developments, with a special focus on post-quantum cryptography capabilities now available in the region.

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Future-Proof Encryption for Switzerland

AWS has made significant progress in integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its services to help protect against potential future quantum computing threats. With the standardization of the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) by NIST as FIPS 203, AWS has systematically integrated these algorithms into services through AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC), the first open-source cryptographic library with FIPS 140-3-validated ML-KEM support. The implementation steps vary by service: some services like Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS KMS automatically provide PQC protection when clients support it (such as newer Chrome browsers), while others require customers to update their application libraries and SDKs to enable hybrid post-quantum key exchanges. For services like AWS Transfer Family, Application and Network Load Balancers, and Amazon API Gateway, customers need to explicitly select PQC-enabled security policies in their service configuration. All PQC-capable services listed below are available in the Europe (Zurich) region, enabling Swiss organizations to protect their data today against “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks and meet evolving compliance requirements.

Additional Services, Features, and Instance Types

The AWS Europe (Zurich) Region now offers 173 services, up from 58 when the region launched in November 2022. Below are highlights of services and significant features introduced since early 2025. For a complete list, see What’s New with AWS. For Europe (Zurich)-specific announcements, see What’s New filtered for Europe (Zurich).

Going Forward: Planning Your Regional Expansion

To help plan your deployments and understand what’s coming to the Europe (Zurich) Region, we recently launched AWS Capabilities by Region, a comprehensive planning tool available in AWS Builder Center. This interactive tool enables organizations to discover and compare AWS services, features, APIs, and CloudFormation resources across Regions, making it easier to understand what’s available today and what’s on the roadmap. You can explore service availability, compare multiple Regions side-by-side, and view forward-looking roadmap information to plan your regional expansion with confidence. For more information about this tool, see Introducing AWS Capabilities by Region for easier Regional planning and faster global deployments.

Below are the highlights of the public roadmap for the Europe (Zurich) Region available in the planning tool as of early January 2026. For full details, see AWS Capabilities by Region. Please note that these are directional launch plans which are subject to change. If you have concerns with the data provided by the planning tool, submit a support request.

The roadmap above reflects current plans based on customer feedback. If specific services or features not listed are critical for your business needs in the Europe (Zurich) Region, work with your AWS account team to help prioritize them. You can also request additional roadmap information beyond the public roadmap above (under NDA) by contacting your AWS sales representative.

Conclusion

In this post, we showed you how the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region has grown from 58 to 173 services over three years, with particular emphasis on post-quantum cryptography capabilities now available across multiple services. You learned about the new AI/ML offerings, expanded compute options, and enhanced storage capabilities that enable you to build more sophisticated applications while maintaining Swiss data residency.

To get started with these new capabilities:

• Explore the AWS Capabilities by Region tool to plan your deployments
• Review the post-quantum cryptography documentation referenced in the section above to understand implementation options
• Contact your AWS account team to discuss specific services critical to your business needs

What services or features would you most like to see in the Zurich Region? Let us know in in the Swiss community space in AWS Builder Center.