Amazon Eyes Athens Cloud Hub, Future Tech Investments

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Amazon senior VP Panos Panay on Monday to review the progress of an Amazon Web Services (AWS)’ investment in a new Athens local zone and to discuss prospects for additional investments in Greece.

During the meeting at the Maximos Mansion, Panay briefed Mitsotakis on the project’s development, noting that the AWS Athens Local Zone is expected to become generally available in July. The infrastructure is designed to enable businesses and public sector organizations operating in Greece to store and process data within the country, meet local data residency requirements and develop applications with very low latency. AWS bills Local Zones as being able to provide access to computing, storage and networking services closer to end users and support latency-sensitive workloads.

The new facility is also expected to provide access to cloud computing, storage, networking and artificial intelligence services while maintaining high security and reliability standards.