
Retail giant invests in cloud infrastructure, logistics locations, streaming productions and satellite internet service.
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Amazon is continually expanding its presence in Germany in the areas of cloud, logistics and streaming.
The Amazon trading platform wants to invest around 16 billion euros in Germany next year.
The money will, among other things, flow into the expansion of data centers for the cloud provider AWS and the modernization of logistics locations, as the company announced. It was said that around 3,000 additional jobs are currently being created in logistics alone. In addition, dozens of in-house productions are planned in Germany for the streaming service Amazon Prime.
According to Amazon, it plans to invest around 4.8 billion euros, a large portion of the investment sum, in expanding its cloud and AI infrastructure. The money would flow into the so-called AWS Region Europe around Frankfurt am Main. Amazon initially did not provide any further details about the investments. In addition to the online marketplace and logistics, the cloud provider AWS is another central business area of the US group. According to the group, around 3,000 employees work for the division in Germany.
The company also said that the logistics centers are about investing in modern technologies such as robotics. Current modernization of the locations in Bad Hersfeld in Hesse and Dortmund and Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia are scheduled to be completed next year. A new center is currently being built in Könnern in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to Amazon, another area of investment is the satellite internet service Amazon Leo. It is the central competition project for Starlink, the satellite internet from the right-wing US entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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