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Does Amazon Web Services support Israel?
Yes — Amazon Web Services has documented support for Israel on record. Every claim below links to its source.
Filed under: Tech companies · Companies that support Israel
Background
Amazon Web Services is the cloud subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.; this page records only what AWS itself contracted for and built, while the parent's separate Israel-related actions — the 2015 acquisition of the Israeli chip designer Annapurna Labs, the roughly $300,000 COVID-19 donation to the Israel Healthcare Foundation, and CEO Andy Jassy's October 2023 statement and employee relief support — are documented on the Amazon.com page. AWS is the named service provider in Project Nimbus, which is why the government contract and the Tel Aviv region sit here rather than on the parent page; the Annapurna team in Yokne'am now develops AWS's Graviton and Nitro silicon, but the acquisition itself was Amazon's. Journalists at The Guardian, +972 Magazine and The Intercept have reported that Israeli military intelligence stored mass-surveillance data on servers run by cloud providers including AWS, and Amazon shareholders filed a proposal asking for a report on how AWS services are used in Gaza; Amazon has generally declined to comment. Those reports concern how paid services were used by the customer, and are described here as context rather than counted as separate corporate support.
The Intercept Data Center Dynamics (shareholder proposal) Amazon (official press release)
Timeline of documented support
Documented support
| Type | Date | Amount | Recipient | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government contract | 2021 | — | Government of Israel (Project Nimbus) Amazon Web Services — Amazon.com's cloud subsidiary, and the entity that actually delivers the service — was selected together with Google Cloud in the Israeli Finance Ministry's 2021 'Project Nimbus' tender, reported at roughly $1.2 billion across both vendors, to supply cloud infrastructure and AI to Israeli government ministries and the defense establishment. AWS's own launch release states that 'the Israeli government tapped AWS as its primary cloud provider as part of the Nimbus contract for government ministries and subsidiaries.' Reporting on the contract documents states the terms bar the vendors from suspending or restricting Israel's access, even over misuse. | |
| Investment / program | 2023-08-01 | $7,200,000,000 | AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region AWS launched the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region with three availability zones as part of Amazon's plan to invest an estimated $7.2 billion in Israel through 2037. An Amazon-commissioned economic study projects $13.9 billion added to Israel's GDP and an average of more than 7,700 full-time-equivalent jobs supported annually. The region lets Israeli customers — including government workloads under Nimbus — keep data inside Israel. The investment figure is Amazon's own multi-year plan, announced under the AWS brand. | |
| Government contract | 2025 | — | Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries (state-owned Israeli arms makers) Internal Amazon financial records, customer usage data and staff emails obtained by The Intercept and published in October 2025 show AWS sold cloud computing and AI services — including EC2, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Titan and the Rekognition image-recognition service — to the Israeli state arms manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, with purchases continuing through 2024 and 2025 and discounted pricing recorded for Israeli defense customers. These are paid commercial contracts with defense companies, not donations, and Amazon declined to answer detailed questions about them. |
Frequently asked questions
Did Amazon Web Services donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
We have no records of cash donations, but Amazon Web Services has documented support of other kinds (Government contract, Investment / program). See the records on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 8 distinct sources are cited for Amazon Web Services. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-07-30
- Amazon (official press release) press.aboutamazon.com
- Time time.com
- Al Jazeera aljazeera.com
- Times of Israel timesofisrael.com
- The Jerusalem Post jpost.com
- The Intercept theintercept.com
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre business-humanrights.org
- Data Center Dynamics (shareholder proposal) datacenterdynamics.com