The Athens Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 instances including C7i, M7i, and R7i, along with Amazon S3, EBS, ECS, and EKS, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece. This expansion addresses local data residency requirements for public sector and financial applications, while also providing single-digit millisecond latency for real-time gaming and interactive experiences.
AWS continues to decentralize its cloud footprint, bringing compute closer to customers to meet local data residency and latency demands for AI-adjacent workloads.