<p>The AWS Frankfurt region (eu-central-1) does only support the "new" v4 signature. Craft 2 uses the v2 signature of the S3 API and that's not easy to fix.</p>

<p>Ireland (eu-west-1) should be good enough in terms of latency.</p>

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2016-05-04T08:40:10.057Z
2016-05-04T08:40:10.057Z
Oliver Stark
<p>According to <a href="https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/5437/errors-occuring-with-assets-and-amazon-s3">this post</a> it's not possible to use Craft 2.x with Amazon S3 within the Frankfurt region. As Craft 3 is still not near release it would be nice to have some sort of a fallback solution. For us that issue is a major drawback ... and I can imagine for other folks from the EU region too.</p>

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Using Amazon S3 with Craft 2.x in Frankfurt region
# Using Amazon S3 with Craft 2.x in Frankfurt region

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-05-04)

According to [this post](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/5437/errors-occuring-with-assets-and-amazon-s3) it's not possible to use Craft 2.x with Amazon S3 within the Frankfurt region. As Craft 3 is still not near release it would be nice to have some sort of a fallback solution. For us that issue is a major drawback ... and I can imagine for other folks from the EU region too.

**Tags:** s3, aws

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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-05-04. Score: 2

The AWS Frankfurt region (eu-central-1) does only support the "new" v4 signature. Craft 2 uses the v2 signature of the S3 API and that's not easy to fix.

Ireland (eu-west-1) should be good enough in terms of latency.


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