In March Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services Unit said to the Wallstreet Journal, that Germany is "one of the few countries" where customers are asking for a data center "on their own soil". This news is now 4 month old and it looks like that a german AWS region is finally arriving.

There are currently 8 public available regions. The region in Germany will be named eu-central-1.

The endpoints for all major services are already set up, but network traffic to http or https is blocked.

Region Name Region Endpoint US East (Northern Virginia) Region us-east-1 ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com US West (Oregon) Region us-west-2 ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com US West (Northern California) Region us-west-1 ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com EU (Ireland) Region eu-west-1 ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region ap-southeast-1 ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region ap-southeast-2 ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region ap-northeast-1 ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com South America (Sao Paulo) Region sa-east-1 ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com Germany (Frankfurt) Region eu-central-1 ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

A traceroute to ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com is showing us, that the traffic is going to Frankfurt am Main (ffm):

$ traceroute ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.comtraceroute to ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com (54.239.54.4), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 vl500.dcata-b16.as6724.net (85.214.1.22) 2.426 ms 2.410 ms 2.390 ms 2 be16.432.core-b2.as6724.net (85.214.0.156) 0.342 ms 0.340 ms 0.327 ms 3 xe-1-2-0.core-b30.as6724.net (85.214.0.69) 1.283 ms 1.291 ms 1.278 ms 4 bei-b2-link.telia.net (213.248.88.89) 1.265 ms 1.253 ms 1.239 ms 5 ffm-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.254.228) 19.178 ms 6 ffm-b10-link.telia.net (213.155.134.137) 19.094 ms 7 a100row-ic-306996-ffm-b10.c.telia.net (62.115.46.130) 18.829 ms 18.818 ms 18.807 ms 8 54.239.4.164 (54.239.4.164) 20.768 ms 54.239.4.166 (54.239.4.166) 20.774 ms 54.239.4.168 (54.239.4.168) 19.758 ms

Let's see how many days or weeks we have to wait, before we can start migrating services from eu-west-1 to Germany.

Update 2014/07/06: Since this report Amazon has removed the DNS records for all hosts in the network 53.239.54.0/24 used by eu-central-1 api endpoints.

Update 2014/08/04: Someone has spotted eu-central-1 in the AWS console:

$ nmap -p 443 54.239.54.0/24 |grep 54.239.54 | awk '{print $5}' 54.239.54.24 54.239.54.25 54.239.54.27 54.239.54.32 54.239.54.33 54.239.54.35 54.239.54.40 54.239.54.41 54.239.54.43

But we can still figure out with openssl that we've discovered the eu-central-1 site. :-)