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title: "AMS-IX: Amsterdam Internet Exchange Point"
description: "AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is an independent, neutral and non-profit Internet Exchange Point . It is a member of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX). AMS-IX Infrastructure a..."
url: https://www.stackscale.com/blog/ixp-ams-ix/
date: 2024-01-08
modified: 2024-02-06
author: "Marketing Stackscale"
image: https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/AMS-IX-Internet-Exchange-Point-Stackscale-Grupo-Aire.jpg
categories: ["Networks"]
tags: ["Interconnection", "Internet Exchange Points"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# AMS-IX: Amsterdam Internet Exchange Point

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is **an independent, neutral and non-profit Internet Exchange Point**. It is a member of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX).

## AMS-IX Infrastructure and interconnection

**AMS-IX is one of the largest hubs for Internet traffic in the world**; established in the 1990s in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nowadays, it operates multiple interconnection platforms around the world. Its platform is always evolving in order to support its constant, rapid growth.

**In January 2024, AMS-IX Amsterdam reached a new peak in traffic: 11.92 Tb/s**.

### Points of Presence

AMS-IX has 16 PoPs in the Netherlands:

- Digital Realty AMS5 (Schiphol-Rijk)
- Digital Realty AMS9 (Amsterdam)
- Digital Realty AMS17 (Amsterdam)
- Digital Realty AMS18 (Amsterdam)
- Equinix AM1/2 (Amsterdam)
- Equinix AM3 (Amsterdam)
- Equinix AM5 (Amsterdam)
- Equinix AM6 (Amsterdam)
- Equinix AM7 (Amsterdam)
- EuNetworks (Amsterdam)
- Global Switch (Amsterdam)
- Greenhouse (Naaldwijk)
- Iron Mountain (Haarlem)
- Nikhef (Amsterdam)
- NorthC Amsterdam AMS01 (Amsterdam)
- SmartDC (Rotterdam)

Moreover, the IXP has the following locations around the world:

- Amsterdam.
- Bangkok.
- Bay Area.
- Cairo — EG-IX, powered by AMS-IX.
- Caribbean.
- Chennai (coming soon).
- Chicago.
- Hong Kong.
- Hyderabad.
- Kolkata.
- Kuching — IRIX, powered by AMS-IX.
- Lagos.
- Manama — MN-IX, powered by AMS-IX.
- Manila (coming soon).
- Mumbai.
- Muscat — OMAN-IX, powered by AMS-IX (coming soon).
- Noida (coming soon).
- Singapore.

### Traffic

The following graph from AMS-IX website shows trafficstatistics from September 2022 to January 2024.

![AMS-IX Amsterdam stats from October 2022 to January 2024](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ams-ix-stats-2022-2024-stackscale-1024x410.jpg)

### IPv6 traffic

Regarding the adoption of the[ IPv6 protocol](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/whats-ipv6/), the following graph shows **AMS-IX IPv6 traffic from March 2023 to January 2024**.

![AMS-IX Amsterdam IPv6 stats March 2023 - January 2024](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ams-ix-stats-ipv6-2023-2024-stackscale.jpg)

[Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly stats](https://stats.ams-ix.net/index.html) are available on their website.

## AMS-IX history and evolution

AMS-IX history started back in 1994 with its first layer-2 shared infrastructure. It was initially used between academic organizations to exchange traffic in the Amsterdam Science Park. However, in 1997, twenty ISPs and carriers founded the AMS-IX association. Nowadays, more than 25 years after its foundation, **AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet Exchange Points in the world** — among more than 150 exchange points distributed around the world.

**The evolution of its traffic has been amazing**, just from 2002 to 2012 it went from a peak traffic of 12 Gb/s to a peak traffic of 2 Tb/s, respectively. In 2016, AMS-IX Amsterdam reached a 5 Tb/s peak and it has already been doubled. **It reached a 11.9 Tb/s peak traffic in January 2024** and it continues to grow solidly. Moreover, as of 2022, AMS-IX total capacity was 49 Tb/s.

Stackscale is on AMS-IX with a clear objective: **improving our connection routes to all the providers that exchange traffic there**. In addition to this Internet Exchange Point, we are present in other[ IXPs](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/internet-exchange-points/) such as ESpanix and we are interconnected to diverse Tier 1 operators and a great number of companies through private peering agreements.

Discover more about our [network](https://www.stackscale.com/network/).