Category: AWS Global Infrastructure

In June 2026, we announced the upcoming launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Greece. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece, bringing AWS compute, storage, and networking capabilities closer to customers in Greece. With this launch, you can process and store data in-country while […]

With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances in AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) processors, you can now bring high-performance GPU compute closer to end users for AI workloads including inference and […]

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. The new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul brings AWS compute, networking, and local storage capabilities to Türkiye, helping you securely store and process data in-country while reducing latency to end users. In 2019, AWS launched the first Local Zone in […]

For latency-sensitive trading workloads, proximity to the exchange matters. Even single-digit millisecond differences in round-trip time can meaningfully influence the trading experience. This means that trading firms evaluating cloud infrastructure need to think carefully about instance placement, network configuration, and physical distance to execution venues. Gemini, a NASDAQ-listed exchange, wanted to take advantage of the […]

AWS recently updated the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool to include Scope 3 emissions for fuel and energy related activities (FERA), buildings and equipment, and IT hardware. This post dives deep into the scientific methods and technology stack behind how we calculate embodied emissions for IT hardware. We take you behind the scenes into the framework […]