Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency requirements.

The Athens Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 with the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and volume types gp3, gp2, io1, sc1, and st1, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer.

Use cases include public sector services that need to meet strict data residency requirements, financial applications that require in-country data processing, and real-time gaming and interactive experiences that benefit from single-digit millisecond latency. Customers use the same APIs, tools, and security features available in AWS Regions, with no minimum commitment and pay-as-you-go pricing including On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances.

The Athens Local Zone is part of AWS Global Infrastructure, with Local Zones now available in more than 30 metropolitan areas worldwide. To get started, enable the Athens Local Zone (eu-central-1-ath-1a) from the Regions and Zones tab in the AWS Global View or by using the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API. For pricing information, visit the AWS Local Zones pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS Local Zones overview page.