AWS expands in Greece with Athens Local Zone launch set for July 2026
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- Amazon.com Inc.’s AWS will launch a Local Zone in Athens in July 2026, extending cloud infrastructure into Greece for low-latency workloads.
- Early users are already running real-time gaming, local data processing, and content delivery ahead of general availability.
- The site targets data residency needs, offering single-digit millisecond latency with connectivity to nearby AWS Regions.
- Athens will be among the first Local Zones to provide Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS local snapshots for in-country storage and backup.
- The rollout adds to AWS’s Greece footprint, following a CloudFront edge location in 2020, a local office in 2021, and Direct Connect in 2025.
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