Cloud Regions in Frankfurt
The cloud regions that run in Frankfurt, and what they mean for off-hours schedules.
Regions in Frankfurt
| Provider | Region | Location |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | eu-central-1 | Frankfurt |
| Google Cloud | europe-west3 | Frankfurt |
| Azure | germanywestcentral | Frankfurt |
All three providers run a region in Frankfurt, so it is a common choice for teams outside Germany that want one EU region on every cloud.
That means a Frankfurt region can hold environments used by people on very different clocks. A staging stack for a US product team does not need to run through the Frankfurt night just because it lives in Frankfurt; it needs to follow the US team’s hours. Schedule by who uses a resource, not by where it runs.
Time zones in Germany: Europe/Berlin.
More on Germany
For every region in the country, its time zones and its data protection law, see cloud regions in Germany.
Questions we get a lot.
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Which cloud regions are in Frankfurt?
AWS eu-central-1, Google Cloud europe-west3 and Azure germanywestcentral.
Should resources in Frankfurt follow German hours?
Only if the people using them work German hours. Schedule each environment in its users' time zone.