---
title: "SurrealDB Cloud is now available in Frankfurt, Germany"
description: "SurrealDB Cloud now runs in Frankfurt, Germany: lower latency across continental Europe, German and EU data residency, and a shorter round trip for agents."
url: https://surrealdb.com/blog/surrealdb-cloud-is-now-available-in-frankfurt-germany
date: 2026-09-02
authors: "Tobie Morgan Hitchcock"
---

# SurrealDB Cloud is now available in Frankfurt, Germany

![SurrealDB Cloud is now available in Frankfurt, Germany](https://cdn.surrealdb.com/e3w85d9m6olov7iy2heokcur.auto)

SurrealDB Cloud can now be deployed in Frankfurt, Germany. The new region is live today - pick it from the region list when you create an instance.

For teams across the DACH region and continental Europe, this is a second European option and, for most of them, the closer one. Until now the nearest place to run a managed SurrealDB instance was Ireland, on the far western edge of the continent.

## Latency and data residency for your workloads

Running in Frankfurt puts the database closer to your users across continental Europe, next to the interconnect that most European traffic already passes through. It also keeps German and EU customer data stored and processed in Germany, satisfying data-residency requirements that previously ruled out a managed deployment. All this while maintaining the same SOC 2 Type 2 controls, ISO 27001, GDPR, encryption and network isolation options as every other region. Agents gain twice over: the region removes the distance, and SurrealDB removes the fan-out. Vector search, graph traversal, full-text search and document reads all resolve in one query against one store rather than separate calls to a vector database, a search engine and a primary database.

## Where SurrealDB Cloud runs

Frankfurt joins six other regions:
- US East (N. Virginia)
- US East (Ohio)
- US West (Oregon)
- Europe (Ireland)
- Europe (Frankfurt)
- Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
- South America (São Paulo)

## Get started

Create an instance in [SurrealDB Cloud](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) and select Europe (Germany) as the region. Everything else - tiers, instance types, versions, backups - works exactly as it does elsewhere, so existing automation needs nothing more than the new region value.

If you are running SurrealDB in production and want high availability alongside in-region deployment, the [Scale tier](https://surrealdb.com/blog/introducing-scale-surrealdb-cloud-built-for-high-availability-and-scale) gives you multi-node, multi-availability-zone clusters.