Apr 23, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will be expanding its data center footprint into Maryland, and is set to take space in TPG’s Quantum Frederick park. The US East (Northern Virginia) Region was the first launched by AWS back in 2006. Today, it consists of six availability zones and dozens of data centers across the region.
“We’re announcing that a new Availability Zone located in Maryland will be added to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, which is expected to open in 2026,” the company said this week. “This new Availability Zone will be connected to other Availability Zones by high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections over dedicated, fully redundant fiber. The upcoming Availability Zone in Maryland will also be instrumental in supporting the rapid growth of generative AI and advanced computing workloads in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region.”
This is known to be the first time a single AWS cloud region has crossed state borders in the US – though the new zone will not be far away from the company’s existing data centers on the south side of the Potomac River.
