Amazon Plans €16 Billion Investment in Germany for 2027

Amazon (AMZN ) plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, according to an Amazon announcement made on October 20, 2026, at the Invest in Germany Summit held by the Federal Government in Berlin. The planned investments span jobs, technology, and infrastructure, including the expansion of data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure, high-speed satellite internet through Amazon Leo, new logistics projects across the country, and a new production slate by Prime Video.

The 2027 commitment adds to more than €100 billion that Amazon says it has invested in Germany since 2010. David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief global affairs and legal officer, spoke alongside Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the summit and called Germany “a hub of innovation and one of the most attractive investment opportunities in Europe.”

Katherina Reiche, the federal minister for economic affairs and energy, said: “Amazon’s investment is a clear vote of confidence in Germany as a location for the future.” Reiche described high-performance data centers as the foundation of the digital economy, said Germany’s industrial data wealth gives the country the potential to become a global leader in industrial AI, and said such investments strengthen Germany’s position in international technology competition while creating value and jobs.

Rocco Bräuniger, Amazon’s country manager for Germany, said the company has already created more than 40,000 permanent jobs and built more than 100 sites in the country. He said Amazon will keep investing in faster logistics, artificial intelligence, high-speed satellite internet, and German productions for Prime Video.

€4.8 Billion for AWS Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Within the total, Amazon plans to invest €4.8 billion in 2027 to expand the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region, which launched in October 2014. Stefan Höchbauer, vice president of AWS global sales for Germany and Europe Central, confirmed the €4.8 billion figure and said customers need secure, available infrastructure and a broad choice of services. Amazon said it has invested double-digit billions of euros in its German cloud infrastructure since 2014, and that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany has been generally available since January 2026. Of the company’s more than 40,000 permanent employees in Germany, 3,000 work for AWS.

Amazon is also opening a second research lab for robotics and artificial intelligence in Berlin, doubling its research presence in the capital. The lab creates specialized roles including applied scientists and robotics hardware, software, and systems engineers.

On workforce development, Amazon and Siemens have offered apprenticeships certified by the German chamber of commerce and industry (IHK) for IT and electronics technicians at Amazon data centers in Hesse and Brandenburg since 2023. Amazon and the IHK launched Germany’s first national cloud certification, the Cloud Business Expert (IHK), and the AWS Tech Alliance has reached more than 20,000 students in Germany since December 2023. A separate Kiro for students program, announced in 2026, gives students at 132 universities across 18 countries, including Germany, a free year of access to Kiro, Amazon’s agentic AI development environment.

Amazon Leo, Logistics, and Prime Video

Amazon Leo is a low Earth orbit satellite network designed to provide internet to households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies in areas that existing networks do not reach, including across Germany. The network has secured 24 launches with European provider Arianespace. The announcement cites a projection by economic research institute Oxford Economics that Amazon Leo’s second-largest economic impact in Europe will be felt in Germany, home to several ArianeGroup sites and to MT Aerospace, one of ArianeGroup’s most important suppliers.

In logistics, Amazon said modernization of fulfillment centers in Bad Hersfeld, Dortmund, and Werne will be completed in 2027, while work in Koblenz, Pforzheim, and Rheinberg continues through 2028. The company is opening a fulfillment center in Zweibrücken in 2026 and building a new one in Könnern, and it said these already-announced projects account for more than 3,000 new jobs in Germany. Full-time logistics employees reach an average annual gross salary of €41,600 after two years, in addition to benefits that include up to €4,500 for professional development, according to the company.

On content, Amazon said it has produced more than 65 local titles in Germany with production companies including UFA, Constantin Film, and Bavaria Film, filming in locations from Berlin to Munich. Newly announced Prime Video movies include Der erste letzte Tag, based on a novel by Sebastian Fitzek; Drive – The Pretenders, starring Lisa-Marie Koroll and Amin Bahmeed; and Holey Moley – Minigolf Extreme, hosted by Johannes B. Kerner and Ralf Schmitz. More than 15 productions are coming to Germany through the end of 2027, and European works account for more than a third of what customers see on the Prime Video homepage in Germany, the company said.

Amazon described itself as Germany’s largest corporate purchaser of carbon-free energy, with enabled projects of more than 1.3 gigawatts of combined capacity, including wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas. Once fully operational, the projects are expected to generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 1.8 million German households annually, the company said. On data center operations, Amazon said its German facilities use free air cooling with no water roughly 95 percent of the time, and that all planned data centers in Germany will use harvested rainwater when evaporative cooling is needed. Amazon said it is 75 percent of the way to its goal of being water positive by 2030, defined as returning more water to communities than it uses across its data center operations, and has announced a third water replenishment project with NABU, the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, expected to return more than 750 million liters of water to the groundwater supply annually.

The company’s community programs in Germany include InCommunities, which operates at its data center locations across four pillars: STEM education, local skills development, sustainability, and hyperlocal social impact. Initiatives include coding workshops with TecHeroes, the first German Think Big Space in Kelsterbach, a Girls’ Tech Day, and an EnergyCloud project converting surplus renewable energy into free heating for families in the Frankfurt Region. Amazon’s Berlin headquarters hosts KiezLab, a 1,400-square-meter community space that provides free educational programs and workshops to 125 nonprofit organizations, and the Goods for Good program lets social organizations order free products, with more than 200 partners expected by the end of 2026. The company’s European Disaster Relief Hub in Leipzig can deliver relief supplies across Europe within 72 hours and most recently provided support during the wildfires in France in the summer of 2026.