Amazon Web Services — Israel Region (il-central-1, Tel Aviv)

Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region — il-central-1 — in August 2023. The region enables Israeli companies, government agencies, and global enterprises operating in Israel to run cloud workloads with local data residency, serving the country’s highly active technology and AI sector.

Israel’s technology ecosystem — including cybersecurity firms, AI startups, defense technology companies, and healthcare AI — is among the most concentrated in the world relative to population. Tel Aviv’s “Silicon Wadi” cluster is home to thousands of tech companies and numerous AWS customers deploying AI workloads for natural language processing, computer vision, and cybersecurity. AWS AI services available in il-central-1 include Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, and Comprehend.

AWS has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Israel region, reflecting the country’s importance as a tech hub and the demand from Israeli startups for sovereign AI compute. The region uses Israel’s national electricity grid, operated by Israel Electric Corporation. Israel’s grid has a high gas component with growing solar penetration. Data residency in Israel is required for certain government and financial sector workloads under the Privacy Protection Law.