Meeting with Panos Panay, Senior Vice President of Amazon had this morning, Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion. The Prime Minister, during the meeting, was informed by Mr Panay of the implementation of Amazon Web Services' investment in creating new Local Zone in Athens, which will be generally available in July.
The new infrastructure will allow businesses and organisations active in Greece to store and process data within borders in order to meet local storage requirements, to develop applications with extremely low response times and to use computing, storage, networking and artificial intelligence services at maximum level of security.
The possibility was also discussed. incorporation of the Greek language Amazon's device and software ecosystem, with Mr Panay noting that the Greek alphabet will be available to platform users Kindle and Alexa in the future, in a way that reflects, without prejudice, the natural use of language.
A review of Amazon’s investments in Greece was also carried out and further investment opportunities were examined, with an emphasis on infrastructure for the internet satellite service Amazon Leo, ‘green’ energy and the development of peak research units.
In this context, the Prime Minister pointed out the high level of Greek labour and Greek universities, which has contributed to the development of a dynamic ecosystem of start-ups and the creation of research units in many areas of the country.