Green hosting guide
Is Amazon Web Services green?
What we can show about Amazon Web Services's hosting, each piece with its source and the date we checked it. Amazon Web Services is part of Amazon.
Evidence checked 16 October 2026. Green Web Foundation directory checked 17 October 2026.
Green Web Foundation
No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.
We looked for a provider with Amazon Web Services's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Amazon Web Services's own.
What GWF verification means, and its new criteria
Where its data centres are
The countries of AWS's standard public regions. China and the US government regions need separate accounts and are not listed.
Each country's average grid carbon intensity, from Ember: the grid where the data centres are, not the provider's own supply.| Country | Grid average | Year |
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| United States | 384 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| South Africa | 699 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Hong Kong (SAR of China) | 676 gCO2e/kWh | 2024 |
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| India | 671 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Indonesia | 705 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Malaysia | 606 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Australia | 518 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| New Zealand | 92 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Japan | 474 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| South Korea | 418 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Singapore | 497 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Taiwan (China) | 634 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Thailand | 526 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Canada | 192 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Germany | 334 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Ireland | 263 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| United Kingdom | 218 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Italy | 284 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| France | 41 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Spain | 153 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Sweden | 35 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Switzerland | 39 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Israel | 493 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Mexico | 481 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Bahrain | 902 gCO2e/kWh | 2024 |
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| United Arab Emirates | 470 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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| Brazil | 109 gCO2e/kWh | 2025 |
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Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0.
Amazon Web Services's own evidence
Carbon-free energy
100% of the electricity consumed by Amazon was matched with renewable energy sources in 2025, for the third consecutive year
https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/climate-solutions/carbon-free-energy Undated
- Covers
- All of Amazon's operations in 2025, not AWS alone.
- Backed by
- An annual match from renewable projects Amazon contracts, renewable power already in the grids where it operates, and retired certificates.
- Note
- Matched over a year, not hour by hour; Amazon publishes no AWS-only or per-region figure.
Renewable Energy Methodology
In certain cases, we may procure renewable energy in other locations.
https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/renewable-energy-methodology.pdf July 2026
- Covers
- The method behind Amazon's 100% figure.
- Backed by
- Renewable energy certificates retired for each megawatt-hour claimed; independently assured.
- Note
- The method allows certificates bought in grids other than the one where the electricity is used.
Our reading
- Amazon's claims cover the whole company; AWS customers cannot tell from them how a given region is powered.
Our checker on its website
When the checker launches, this section will show its measurement of Amazon Web Services's own website: a fact about that one website, not about how its customers' sites are hosted.
Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).