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Amazon Web Services

Global hyperscale cloud with the broadest service catalog, NVIDIA H100/H200/L40S instance families and, since May 2026, a Local Zone in Istanbul attached to the Frankfurt region.

Last verified: Editorial review aws.amazon.com

Full regions
1
Global regions; in Türkiye an Istanbul Local Zone (GA May 2026) with a subset of services,
GA services
10
of 10 listed
Billing model
Per second
USD
H100 / H200 / L40S
3 / 3
GPU models generally available

Overview

Amazon Web Services operates a global network of cloud regions and Local Zones. In May 2026 AWS announced general availability of the AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, which provides EC2, EBS, Amazon S3 (One Zone-IA storage class), EBS Snapshots, VPC and Elastic Load Balancing in Türkiye, with a high-bandwidth connection to the Europe (Frankfurt) Region for the full service range. GPU capacity is offered through EC2 P5 (H100), P5e/P5en (H200) and G6e (L40S) instance families in selected regions. Control-plane activity is recorded by AWS CloudTrail.

Compiled from AWS public documentation and announcements listed in Sources. Regional availability of instance families changes frequently; confirm in the AWS console before procurement.

Headquarters
Seattle, United States
Billing model
On-demand Linux EC2 instances are billed per second with a 60-second minimum; other operating systems and services have their own meters.
Technologies
Nitro SystemS3 APICloudFormationTerraform

Infrastructure regions

Global regions; in Türkiye an Istanbul Local Zone (GA May 2026) with a subset of services, parented to Europe (Frankfurt).

Infrastructure regions
Region Location Type Status Notes
Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Frankfurt, Germany Region Generally available
Istanbul Local Zone istanbul-local-zone İstanbul, Türkiye Local Zone Generally available EC2, EBS, S3 One Zone-IA, EBS Snapshots, VPC and ELB; parent region Europe (Frankfurt).

Products and services

Compute

Amazon EC2

Generally available

Virtual machine instances across general purpose, memory, compute and accelerated families.

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Generally available

Managed Kubernetes control plane with managed node groups and autoscaling options.

GPU & AI compute

EC2 accelerated computing (P5, P5e/P5en, G6e)

Generally available

NVIDIA H100 (P5), H200 (P5e/P5en) and L40S (G6e) instances in selected regions.

Block storage

Amazon EBS

Generally available

Persistent block volumes with snapshots.

Object storage

Amazon S3

Generally available

Object storage service that defines the S3 API.

Backup

AWS Backup

Generally available

Centralised backup policies across AWS services.

Managed database

Amazon RDS

Generally available

Managed relational databases.

Networking

Elastic Load Balancing (ALB / NLB)

Generally available

L7 Application Load Balancer and L4 Network Load Balancer.

Amazon VPC and NAT Gateway

Generally available

Private networks, route tables, NAT gateways, security groups and Elastic IP addresses.

Cloud security & auditing

AWS CloudTrail

Generally available

Records account activity and API calls as audit events.

GPU availability

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GPU availability
GPU Status Offering List price
NVIDIA H100 Generally available EC2 P5 Single-GPU p5.4xlarge and 8-GPU p5.48xlarge sizes; availability varies by region. Not published
NVIDIA H200 Generally available EC2 P5e / P5en 8-GPU instances; availability varies by region. Not published
NVIDIA L40S Generally available EC2 G6e 1 to 8 L40S GPUs per instance. Not published

Capability matrix

The same criteria are applied to every provider. Values show documented capabilities, not performance scores.

Amazon Web Services capability matrix
Criterion AWS
Data residency
Infrastructure located in Türkiye Generally available compute and storage capacity physically located in Türkiye (full region or local zone). Yes Istanbul Local Zone with a subset of services (GA May 2026); not a full region.
Compute & GPU
Virtual machine instances Self-service virtual machines with selectable CPU/RAM profiles. Yes
Per-second or per-minute billing Standard compute billed at per-second or per-minute granularity rather than per started hour. Yes Per-second for Linux on-demand (60 s minimum).
Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. Yes Dedicated Hosts and bare-metal instances.
NVIDIA H100 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Yes
NVIDIA H200 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Yes
NVIDIA L40S instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. Yes
Platform & automation
API and Terraform automation Documented API plus an available Terraform provider for infrastructure as code. Yes
Open-source cloud stack (OpenStack-based) The provider publicly states that its IaaS control plane is built on OpenStack or an equivalent open-source stack. No
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes Provider-operated Kubernetes control plane. Yes
Kubernetes node autoscaling Worker node count scales automatically within configured limits. Yes
Kubernetes LoadBalancer integration Services of type LoadBalancer provision a provider load balancer automatically. Yes
Kubernetes storage classes (CSI) Persistent volumes provisioned dynamically through a provider storage class. Yes
Storage & data
Block storage volumes Persistent, attachable and expandable block volumes. Yes
Volume snapshots Point-in-time snapshots of block volumes. Yes
S3-compatible object storage Object storage reachable through the S3 API or an S3-compatible API. Yes Native S3.
Managed backup service Scheduled backup and restore for instances or volumes managed by the provider. Yes
Managed database Provider-operated relational database service. Yes
Networking
L4 load balancer (TCP/UDP) Transport-layer load balancing. Yes
L7 load balancer (HTTP/HTTPS) Application-layer load balancing with HTTP health checks. Yes
Reassignable static public IP Static public addresses that can be moved between resources (Floating/Reserved/Elastic IP). Yes Elastic IP addresses.
Private networks / VPC Isolated tenant networks with custom CIDR ranges. Yes
Virtual router with NAT Managed router or NAT gateway for egress and inter-subnet routing, including static routes. Yes Route tables and NAT Gateway.
Security groups / cloud firewall Stateful, API-managed network access rules. Yes
Security & auditing
Control-plane audit logging A provider service that records management (API/console) operations against cloud resources. Yes AWS CloudTrail.
User identity attribution in audit events Each audit event identifies the authenticated principal that performed the operation. Yes

Cloud audit logging: AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail records management events by default and optional data events, with event history, trails to S3 and CloudWatch Logs, and CloudTrail Lake for SQL queries.

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Documented features of cloud audit logging services
Feature AWS CloudTrail Amazon Web Services
Control-plane audit scope Records management operations (create, modify, delete) performed through the API or console. Yes Management events recorded by default.
Identity attribution Identifies the authenticated user, project/account and scope behind each operation. Yes userIdentity block (principal, account, session).
Request metadata Captures request ID, HTTP method, path, status code, source IP and user agent. Yes eventTime, requestID, sourceIPAddress, userAgent, errorCode.
Data-plane (data access) events Optional recording of data-level reads and writes (for example object reads). Yes Data events (for example S3 object-level) are optional and charged.
Event search and filtering Console or API search by user, time range, resource or operation. Yes Event history lookup; SQL queries in CloudTrail Lake.
Configurable retention Documented default retention and options to extend it. Yes 90-day event history; longer retention via trails to S3 or CloudTrail Lake.
Export and streaming Delivery to object storage, log analytics or SIEM pipelines. Yes S3, CloudWatch Logs, EventBridge.
Log integrity validation Cryptographic or immutability controls that detect tampering. Yes Log file integrity validation with digest files.
Pricing model Whether baseline audit history is included and how extended capabilities are charged. Yes Event history and one copy of management events free; data events and Lake charged.
Information source Official documentation

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Frequently asked questions

Does AWS have a region in Türkiye?

AWS does not operate a full region in Türkiye. Since May 2026 it operates an Istanbul Local Zone offering EC2, EBS, S3 One Zone-IA, VPC and ELB, connected to the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

Sources

  1. [1] Now Open — AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, Türkiye — AWS Official documentation accessed:
  2. [2] Introducing three new NVIDIA GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances (P5e, G6, G6e) — AWS Official documentation accessed:
  3. [3] Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing — AWS Official documentation accessed:
  4. [4] AWS CloudTrail User Guide — AWS Official documentation accessed: