In the US, the company operates in some 38 facilities in Northern Virginia, eight in San Francisco, another eight in its hometown of Seattle and seven in northeastern Oregon. In Europe, it has seven data center buildings in Dublin, Ireland, four in Germany, and three in Luxembourg. Over in the APAC region, there are 12 facilities in Japan, nine in China, six in Singapore, and eight in Australia. It also houses infrastructure in six sites in Brazil.

Wikileaks has put the facilities on a map, for easier viewing.

Among the colocation and wholesale data center companies listed in the 'Amazon Atlas' document are Equinix, CyrusOne, Digital Fortress, Hitachi, Terremark, KVH, KDDI, Keppel, Tata Communications, Colt, Global Switch, iseek-KDC, NextDC, and Ascenty (now owned by Digital Realty).

As the document is from 2015, it does not list any new regions the world's largest cloud provider has since expanded into. It also does not take into account AWS' recent move to sell its Chinese infrastructure.

WikiLeaks' motivation for this latest leak is unclear. It purports to essentially release all files that are sent to it, after cursory fact-checking, and was responsible for important revelations on corruption, torture and collateral deaths during wars. However, the group is mired in controversy and scandals, with its contentious founder living in London's Ecuadorian embassy for the past six years after facing rape allegations.

In 2016, the group communicated with Donald Trump Jr., while releasing emails from the Democratic National Committee that are thought to have been illegally acquired by hackers employed by the Russian state, negatively impacting the Clinton election campaign. The group has been dogged by claims of Russian influence for several years.

In a press release for the latest leak, WikiLeaks mentions AWS' $600 million contract with the CIA, GovCloud and Secret Region facilities, and the Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract.

The organization states: "Currently, Amazon is one of the leading contenders for an up to $10 billion contract to build a private cloud for the Department of Defense. Amazon is one of the only companies with the certifications required to host classified data in the cloud. The Defense Department is looking for a single provider and other companies, including Oracle and IBM, have complained that the requirements unfairly favor Amazon."

Bids for JEDI are due today.

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