Amazon Web Services — Oregon Region AI Campus (us-west-2)

Amazon Web Services’ Oregon region (us-west-2) in the Hillsboro-Prineville corridor is one of AWS’s most critical and largest infrastructure concentrations globally. Launched in 2011, the region has grown to include dozens of data center buildings across Hillsboro, Boardman, Hermiston, and Prineville, collectively representing hundreds of megawatts of capacity and one of the most significant AI compute clusters in the Pacific Northwest.

The Oregon region hosts AWS GovCloud (US-West), making it the primary cloud infrastructure for US federal government AI workloads under FedRAMP authorization. SageMaker training clusters, Bedrock model serving, and large-scale machine learning inference all run in the Oregon region. AWS Trainium and Inferentia clusters for large-scale AI training are deployed here.

Oregon’s low electricity costs (Portland General Electric and Pacific Power’s hydro-heavy grid), land availability, and mild climate for air cooling make it ideal for hyperscale data centers. Amazon has been the largest private employer in some Oregon communities due to data center construction activity. The state offers substantial tax incentives through its “Strategic Investment Program” for data center operators. AWS has invested over $10 billion in Oregon infrastructure and is one of the state’s largest private sector taxpayers.