About Netherlands
Amsterdam is the Netherlands' interconnection anchor and one of Europe's three largest exchange markets, shaped by AMS-IX, an open peering culture that puts independent ISPs and content networks within one hop, and a mature subsea cable landing ecosystem. Those conditions make the metro a working gateway between Northern Europe, the British Isles, and transatlantic routes.
Zenlayer operates 6 data centers in Amsterdam, offering bare metal cloud (BMC), public cloud instances, edge colocation, IP transit, Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, and CDN, with IP transit at three of the six sites. Facilities in the Amsterdam footprint carry certifications including ISO 27001, ISO 50001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 Type 2, with the exact profile varying by site, so regulated teams should confirm the standards held at the specific building they select.
The Netherlands sits inside the EU's GDPR perimeter, and Amsterdam reaches Zenlayer's other European markets, among them Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, across the Cloud WAN backbone. Teams commonly pair Amsterdam with a second European anchor, keeping peering-heavy delivery in one metro and compute density in the other.
Compute in the Netherlands
Amsterdam carries Zenlayer's compute stack for the Netherlands: bare metal cloud (BMC) at two of the six facilities, public cloud instances at two, and edge colocation for customer-owned hardware. Bare metal is the common choice because Dutch deployments tend to be delivery-heavy, and dedicated hardware sitting directly on peering fabric holds throughput steady at high egress volumes.
Typical workloads include streaming and CDN origins serving the Benelux and the Nordics, multiplayer game servers for Western European player bases, ad-tech and bidding platforms that need consistent round-trip times to European publishers, and EU-resident API endpoints for teams keeping customer data inside the GDPR perimeter.
Enterprise hardware
Intel Xeon Scalable. Up to 384 GB RAM. NVMe and SSD storage tiers.
Premium network
100+ Tbps backbone with dynamic, latency-optimized routing.
Instant provisioning
Deploy via Terraform, REST API, or the point-and-click zenConsole.
Flexible billing
Hourly pay-as-you-go with discounts for longer commitments.
Networking in the Netherlands
Zenlayer's Amsterdam presence covers IP transit at three of its six facilities, plus Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, and CDN at two each. Those services sit inside one of Europe's three largest exchange markets, where AMS-IX and the city's open peering culture let enterprise traffic reach independent ISPs, content networks, and regional carriers directly rather than through upstream transit.
Cloud Connect provides private, dedicated links into the hyperscaler regions reachable from Amsterdam, bypassing the public internet for lower latency and steadier throughput. Cloud WAN attaches the Netherlands to Zenlayer's global software-defined backbone, which is how an Amsterdam footprint extends into Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
IP Transit
Blended carrier routes tuned for the lowest real-world latency.
Cloud Connect
Private, dedicated links into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
Cloud WAN
Software-defined backbone spanning 290+ points of presence.
Edge protection
Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation with real-time traffic filtering.
Colocation in the Netherlands
Zenlayer offers colocation at two of its six carrier-neutral Amsterdam data centers, supporting customers who run their own hardware alongside managed compute and network services. Cross-connects reach the peering fabric and the transit providers in the building, so a colocated rack inherits the same interconnection depth as the managed footprint.
Amsterdam is a supply-constrained market, where municipal growth restrictions and congestion on the regional power grid have slowed construction inside the city and pushed new capacity toward the wider metro. Existing carrier-neutral space is therefore harder to source at short notice, so rack availability and power draw belong in the design phase, not at the end of it.
Carrier-neutral
Access to 400+ carriers and major regional peering exchanges.
Flexible power
Standard and high-density rack configurations on request.
Secure access
Biometric entry, CCTV, and 24/7 dedicated remote hands.
Rapid turn-up
Cage-to-production cross-connects in days, not weeks.
Cities in Netherlands
Data Centers in Netherlands
6 totalAmsterdam
Home of AMS-IX, one of the world's densest peering fabrics and Northern Europe's traffic crossroads.
6 DCs
Amsterdam
Home of AMS-IX, one of the world's densest peering fabrics and Northern Europe's traffic crossroads.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| EU-Amsterdam1(Equinix_AM3)AMS1 |  | ColoIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| EU-Amsterdam2(Equinix_AM7)AMS2 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud ConnectCDN |
| EU-Amsterdam4(Equinix_AM5)AMS4 | | ColoBMCIP TransitCDN |
| EU-Amsterdam5(DRT_AMS9)AMS5 | Telx | Colo |
| EU-Amsterdam6(Nikhef)AMS6 |  | Colo |
| EU-Amsterdam7(DRT_AMS18)AMS7 | Telx | Colo |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Netherlands.
Where are Zenlayer's data centers located in the Netherlands?
Zenlayer operates 6 data centers in Amsterdam, and the Netherlands footprint is concentrated entirely in that metro. Amsterdam holds the country's exchange fabric, its carrier-neutral campuses, and the bulk of its international transit capacity, which is why the Dutch inventory sits in one city rather than spread across several.
What cloud and network services are available in Amsterdam?
Amsterdam carries bare metal cloud (BMC) and public cloud instances at two facilities each, edge colocation at two, IP transit at three, and Cloud WAN, Cloud Connect, and CDN across two facilities each. Availability is stated per facility rather than per city, so the right site depends on which combination of compute, transit, and on-ramp a deployment needs.
Why deploy in Amsterdam rather than another European city?
Three things combine in Amsterdam: open peering at AMS-IX that reaches independent ISPs and content networks without an upstream carrier, a carrier-neutral campus market that keeps cross-connect options wide, and EU data residency under GDPR. Delivery-heavy and peering-sensitive workloads serving the Benelux, the Nordics, and the British Isles usually default here.
How does peering at AMS-IX affect delivery cost and latency?
Amsterdam's peering culture is unusually open, so a network joining AMS-IX can exchange traffic with a large share of the region's eyeball and content networks directly instead of paying an upstream carrier to carry it. That shortens paths, removes a routing hop that adds jitter, and moves high-volume delivery traffic off metered transit onto settlement-free peering.
What are Zenlayer's neighboring markets to the Netherlands?
Zenlayer operates in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Ireland, alongside other European markets. Amsterdam reaches these over Zenlayer's SDN backbone, which makes the Netherlands a practical anchor for multi-country European deployments that need one peering-rich metro feeding several national footprints.
Deploy Infrastructure in the Netherlands
Talk with Zenlayer to design an Amsterdam deployment anchored on AMS-IX peering, cloud on-ramps, and EU data residency across carrier-neutral facilities.