OpenObserve announces the general availability of a new cloud region: EU-Central 1 (Frankfurt), hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Organizations operating across the EU and the DACH region have long required a local observability destination to satisfy GDPR mandates and strict national data residency standards. Previously, routing telemetry to non-European infrastructure introduced compliance risk, elevated network latency, and required complex legal agreements to govern cross-border data transfers. The EU-Central 1 region eliminates these obstacles by keeping all ingested logs, metrics, and traces within Germany’s geographic boundaries, fully within the AWS EU-Central 1 availability zone.

This expansion is designed specifically for enterprises that must demonstrate data sovereignty to regulators, auditors, and customers. By leveraging the AWS backbone, European workloads benefit from optimized network routing, reduced overhead, and seamless integration with AWS-native services and monitoring workflows. Teams can continue using their existing AWS tooling—CloudWatch, Kinesis, or native application instrumentation—while forwarding telemetry directly into OpenObserve without data leaving the EU.

The EU-Central 1 (Frankfurt) region is available immediately for all OpenObserve Cloud customers. To get started, select the EU-Central 1 region when creating or migrating your OpenObserve Cloud organization, or visit openobserve.ai to begin a free trial.