Amazon is spreading parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across more AWS regions as power and data centre capacity become tighter. The multiyear programme, called Region Flex, is designed to reduce reliance on several large AWS regions and place workloads in more locations. Internal planning documents reported by Business Insider cited power availability and capacity as reasons for the moves. Amazon confirmed that Region Flex exists, but said some timelines and details in the documents are no longer accurate. Reported moves include shifting some workloads from Dublin to Frankfurt and Zaragoza, Spain. The change can raise costs because workloads spread across regions may need more infrastructure, monitoring, failover planning and data transfer. Amazon is still adding capacity and plans to increase its AWS power capacity sharply through 2027. Ireland is also tightening rules for new data centre connections as electricity demand from data centres continues to rise.
Amazon is spreading parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across more AWS regions as power and data centre capacity become tighter. The multiyear programme, called Region Flex, is designed to reduce reliance on several large AWS regions and place workloads in more locations. Internal planning documents reported by Business Insider cited power availability and capacity as reasons for the moves. Amazon confirmed that Region Flex exists, but said some timelines and details in the documents are no longer accurate. Reported moves include shifting some workloads from Dublin to Frankfurt and Zaragoza, Spain. The change can raise costs because workloads spread across regions may need more infrastructure, monitoring, failover planning and data transfer. Amazon is still adding capacity and plans to increase its AWS power capacity sharply through 2027. Ireland is also tightening rules for new data centre connections as electricity demand from data centres continues to rise.