From 3 April 2013 to 30 August 2013 Augsburg, commanded by Fregattenkapitän Bernhard Veitl, spent five and a half months supporting Operation Atalanta.

[1][2] On 11 February 2014 Augsburg deployed from Wilhelmshaven with the frigates Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Hamburg, the corvette Oldenburg and the storeship Frankfurt am Main to take part in the navy's annual training and exercises.

These concluded at Kiel on 20 June 2014, during which time the ships carried out manoeuvres as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as the Equator, visiting 13 ports in nine countries.

[3] On 9 April 2014 Augsburg was released from the training exercises in order to serve as an escort for the US special purpose vessel MV Cape Ray in the eastern Mediterranean.

[5] On 6 December 2015 Augsburg deployed as an escort for the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during its operations against the military group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.