Amazon Web Services announces investment in Greece – Meeting of Mr. Mitsotakis with company executives

Amazon Web Services announced that it will launch more than 30 new “local” zones in more than 21 countries, including Greece.

The new AWS “local zones” will be available from 2022 in major cities of countries such as: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India , Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal and South Africa.

“I’m very excited to announce that we will be expanding our local zones around the world to Europe, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia,” said Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, during the annual Conference. : Invent organized by the company. “And of course we will have one in my city, Amsterdam.”

Amazon “local areas” are a type of infrastructure that brings together computers, storage, and other select services in metropolitan areas. “Services allow end users to run high – end programs without delay.”

The new “local zones” are added to the existing 16 of the AWS existing in the US and specifically in: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia .

Mitsotakis meeting on Friday with AWS executives

Meeting with executives of Amazon Web Services, on the subject of the large investment of the company in our country, will be tomorrow Friday at 9.30 am. Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The meeting will be attended by the Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis, the Minister of State and Digital Government Kyriakos Pierrakakis and the Ministers of State, George Gerapetritis and Akis Skertsos.