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NEWS3 min readUpdated Mar 30, 2026

Amazon Luna expands to four new regions

Lower latency for Southeast Asia and South America as Luna grows.

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Amazon is expanding Luna's server footprint into new regions, cutting latency for players who previously connected across an ocean. If Luna was unplayable where you live, it may be worth a retest.

Luna has always been the quiet member of the cloud gaming pack: solid technology, modest catalog, and a footprint that made it a non-starter outside its core regions. That last part is changing — Amazon has been switching on capacity closer to Southeast Asia and South America, regions that previously routed to distant data centers.

Why regions matter more than specs

Every 1,000 km to the server adds roughly 10 ms of round-trip latency before the stream even starts working. A new region nearby routinely cuts ping by 50-100 ms — the difference between "unplayable" and "perfectly fine" for most genres. It is the single biggest lever any cloud service can pull.

KEY TAKEAWAY

If you tried Luna from Asia or South America and bounced off the lag, the calculus may have changed — run our network test and see.

Where Cloudplay stands

We do not yet track Luna's catalog game-by-game the way we do GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud and Boosteroid — that ingestion is on our roadmap, and Luna's pages will fill in as it lands. In the meantime our network test measures your real latency to each service's nearest region, which is the number that decides whether Luna is worth your evening.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a subscription to try Luna?

Luna offers channel subscriptions, and Prime members periodically get a rotating set of games at no extra cost — the cheapest way to test the streaming quality where you live.

Why doesn't Cloudplay list Luna's games yet?

Our Luna catalog ingestion is still on the roadmap. The service pages and counts will populate once we track its library the way we do the other services.

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