Order picking at an Amazon distribution centre

Online retail giant Amazon is looking for its first warehouse in Australia, with suggestions one site of interest is the Goodman Group's $50 million industrial estate at Oakdale in Sydney's west.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the retail disruptor already has two traditional-style data centres in Sydney's west.

The report cites agents saying that given the usually large warehouses required by Amazon, the new Oakdale site would be the best available.

The estate is in two parts, Oakdale Central, which is mostly leased, and Oakdale South, which is large enough to accommodate an Amazon, purpose-built fulfilment centre. These are highly automated warehouses from which it processes customer orders and are usually about 80,000-plus sqm.

It is still early days for the south sector of Oakdale as no ground works have taken place, but the report indicates that Goodman has the capacity and expertise to start work when Amazon makes a decision.

Goodman is Amazon's main landlord globally.