In February 1994, a layer 2 shared infrastructure, used between academic institutes, was connected with CERN to exchange traffic.

In 1997, the AMS-IX Association was founded by twenty of the connected Internet service providers and carriers.

In September 2013, the board voted to create a legal framework to facilitate an expansion into the United States.

[14]SURFnet, a member of the exchange, had expressed its objection to the proposal, citing the possibility that such interception would be demanded.

[20] The AMS-IX platform is continually evolving due to its rapid growth in traffic and number of connected member ports.

[21] This double-star topology had the advantage of being able to perform maintenance on the network without any impact on customer traffic, and to anticipate on fiber and equipment problems by (automatically) switching to the backup topology as soon as a failure in one of the active components occurs.