AWS Global Infrastructure and Sustainability Blog

Companies face increasing pressure to measure and reduce their environmental footprint. They measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol across three scopes: Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy), and Scope 3 (supply chain emissions). AWS is an upstream supplier of its customers. Emissions associated […]

Subsea cables are the unseen circulatory system of the modern internet. Thinner than a garden hose yet carrying 99% of all international data, these fiber optic lines crisscross ocean floors connecting continents, economies, and people.To meet ever-increasing demands for bandwidth, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is developing Sta’O’Nuk, a new low latency, high-capacity subsea fiber optic […]

In June 2026, we announced the upcoming launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Greece. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece, bringing AWS compute, storage, and networking capabilities closer to customers in Greece. With this launch, you can process and store data in-country while […]

Advancing Water Stewardship at AWS: New Water Withdrawals Data Now Available in the AWS Sustainability Console At Amazon, we know that water is a precious resource. In 2022, AWS announced the commitment to being water positive by 2030. That means we’ll return more water to communities and the environment than we use in our data […]

With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances in AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) processors, you can now bring high-performance GPU compute closer to end users for AI workloads including inference and […]

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. The new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul brings AWS compute, networking, and local storage capabilities to Türkiye, helping you securely store and process data in-country while reducing latency to end users. In 2019, AWS launched the first Local Zone in […]

For latency-sensitive trading workloads, proximity to the exchange matters. Even single-digit millisecond differences in round-trip time can meaningfully influence the trading experience. This means that trading firms evaluating cloud infrastructure need to think carefully about instance placement, network configuration, and physical distance to execution venues. Gemini, a NASDAQ-listed exchange, wanted to take advantage of the […]

AWS recently updated the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool to include Scope 3 emissions for fuel and energy related activities (FERA), buildings and equipment, and IT hardware. This post dives deep into the scientific methods and technology stack behind how we calculate embodied emissions for IT hardware. We take you behind the scenes into the framework […]

Traditionally, organizations have faced a complex, labor-intensive, and error-prone process of manually tracking their carbon footprint and generating climate-related reports. The process typically involves employees spending countless hours gathering data from disparate sources including utility bills, fuel consumption records, procurement documents, travel receipts, and facility operations logs. Large teams have to manually input this data […]

The custom-built Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transponder from AWS delivers 73% more bandwidth than the previous version, while reducing power consumption by nearly 35% When you stream a movie, make an online purchase, or use a cloud-based application, your data travels across vast networks of fiber optic cables spanning cities, countries, and continents. Behind […]