Frankfurt or Ireland for our NL customers?
Both work fine for NL. Frankfurt has lower latency to NL (1-3 ms difference), Ireland historically has more services and lower price on some SKUs. For 95 percent of SMBs: pick one and stick with it.
Try this first
- 1For latency-sensitive apps (real-time gaming, trading): Frankfurt. For the rest: barely matters.
- 2Check service availability: new AWS services often roll out first in eu-west-1 (Ireland). But the gap is small now.
- 3Pricing: per-region prices can vary by a few percent. Not the basis for your choice.
- 4Data residency: both are EU. If your customer asks for 'Germany-only', then Frankfurt. For general 'EU' both work.
- 5Pick one and stick with it. Moving costs data egress and usually isn't worth the few percent pricing difference.
When to bring us in
For multi-region active-active or a specific German customer demand for in-Germany isolation, a short review is worth it before committing.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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