Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners in AWS eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)

Why this fits

• Germany-resident CI — common requirement for DACH enterprise.
• AWS AWS eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) keeps your CI compute in DE for the duration of the job — useful for GDPR, RBI, HIPAA-adjacent and other data-residency rules.
• Audit-friendly — every job logs the region it ran in; data leaving the region requires an explicit step in your workflow.

.cirun.yml

.cirun.yml

1runners:
2  - name: aws-eu-central-1-runner
3    cloud: aws
4    instance_type: c7i.2xlarge
5    # AWS publishes new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS AMI IDs per region. Use the AWS
6    # SSM parameter
7    # /aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/server/22.04/stable/current/amd64/hvm/ebs-gp2/ami-id
8    # to fetch the current one.
9    machine_image: ami-053b0d53c279acc90
10    labels:
11      - cirun-aws-eu-central-1

Drop this in your repo root. The first workflow that requests the runner label spins this configuration up on your cloud account.