Amazon may be preparing to open a data center for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Frankfurt, Germany according to The Register.

The rumoured facility will give customers in central and Eastern Europe a responsive lower-latency option.

AWS currently has a European facility in Dublin, Ireland which was launched in 2007.

It also has Edge Locations in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Marseille, Milan, Paris, Stockholm and Warsaw.

According to Berlin-based startup Bitplaces VP of operations Nils Jünemann in a post on his personal blog AWS has already named its end point eu-central-1.

“A traceroute to ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com is showing us, that the traffic is going to Frankfurt am Main,” Jünemann posted.



Jünemann showed that scanning a block of IP addresses owned by Amazon.com revealed running systems that identified themselves as eu-central-1 servers.

Earlier this year AWS’s SVP Andy Jassy said to the Wall Street Journal Germany is one of the few countries where customers were asking for a data center on their own soil.

Germany has very strict rules which regulate the treatment of consumer and employee data with greater concerns after the NSA scandal.