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AWS outage history and postmortems

Cloud and hosting · Seattle, US · 8 incidents in 90 days · 99.96% implied uptime · last 2d ago

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Ongoing now · 2

Checked 1h 22m ago
Long-running, still open (none started in the last 7 days)· 2
  • Region AvailabilityInvestigating252 days
    Major outageMultiple services

    55d agoWe are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) Region. The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ...

  • Region AvailabilityInvestigating253 days
    Major outageMultiple services

    55d agoWe are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) Region. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted...

History

MinorNov 6, 22:51 UTC
Elevated Launch Failureslasted 2h 21mStorage
MinorOct 30, 01:28 UTC
Increased invoke error rateslasted 0m
MinorOct 4, 16:14 UTC
Elevated packet losslasted 2h 42mConfig change
MinorSep 21, 23:26 UTC
Increased Error Rateslasted 58m
MinorSep 3, 21:49 UTC
Increased API Error Rateslasted 2h 18m
MinorAug 21, 02:02 UTC
Increased Error Rateslasted 38m
MinorAug 19, 15:15 UTC
Increased Error Rateslasted 3h 32m
MinorAug 15, 03:42 UTC
Increased Packet losslasted 3dNetwork
MinorJul 31, 17:33 UTC
Elevated Packet Losslasted 1h 21mConfig change
MinorJul 24, 11:40 UTC
Connectivity Issueslasted 1h 21mNetwork
MinorJul 17, 08:33 UTC
Inaccurate Estimated Billing Datalasted 29h 24mConfig change
MajorJul 16, 08:44 UTC
Increased 5xx Errorslasted 3h 38mNetwork
MinorJul 15, 23:11 UTC
Elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zonelasted 2h 13mNetwork
MinorJul 6, 12:45 UTC
Increased Launch Template API Error Rateslasted 2h 8m
MinorJun 30, 21:02 UTC
Increased Error Rates and Latencieslasted 51mConfig change
MinorJun 13, 01:26 UTC
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Accesslasted 2d 16h
MinorJun 6, 04:24 UTC
Internet Connectivity Issueslasted 0m
MinorMay 22, 23:38 UTC
Increased API Error Rateslasted 35m
MinorMay 8, 00:25 UTC
Increased Error Rate and Latencylasted 26h 39mPower
MinorApr 27, 11:27 UTC
Increased Connectivity Issueslasted 39m
MajorMar 7, 19:53 UTC
Increased Error Rateslasted 1h 11mStorage
CriticalOngoingMar 2, 05:56 UTC
Region Availabilitystill openNetwork
CriticalOngoingMar 1, 12:51 UTC
Region Availabilitystill openNetwork
MinorFeb 25, 18:14 UTC
Intermittent missing or delayed EC2 instance and status check metricslasted 2h 37m
MinorFeb 21, 00:38 UTC
AWS Direct Connect Connectivity Issueslasted 1h 35m
MinorFeb 10, 21:15 UTC
Change Propagation Delayslasted 7h 4m
MinorFeb 7, 18:30 UTC
Network Connectivitylasted 0m
MinorJan 28, 17:14 UTC
Elevated latencies for network change propagationlasted 2h 8mConfig change
MinorOct 28, 2025, 22:36 UTC
Increased Error Rates and Latencieslasted 7h 20m
CriticalOct 20, 2025, 07:11 UTC
Increased Error Rates and Latencieslasted 15h 42mDNS
CriticalOct 20, 2025, 06:48 UTC
DynamoDB DNS failure takes down US-EAST-1A latent race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system left an empty DNS record for the regional endpoint dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, and the automation failed to repair it.lasted 14h 32mDNSPostmortem
MinorSep 27, 2025, 03:25 UTC
Increased Error Rates and Latencieslasted 33m
MinorSep 25, 2025, 21:56 UTC
SQS Increased API Error Rateslasted 7h 28m
CriticalDec 7, 2021, 15:30 UTC
Internal network congestion disrupts US-EAST-1An automated activity to scale capacity of a service in the main AWS network triggered unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network, congesting the devices between the internal and main networks.lasted 7h 10mNetworkPostmortem
CriticalFeb 28, 2017, 17:37 UTC
Mistyped command removes S3 index servers in US-EAST-1An S3 team member ran an established playbook command with one input entered incorrectly, removing far more servers than intended, including those behind the index and placement subsystems.lasted 4h 17mOperatorPostmortem
About AWS

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Cloud and hosting median
55m

AWS: 46m weighted downtime in range, category median 55m.

8 incidents, 0 major or critical, 3d 12h of incident time (0m major or critical, 3d 12h partial), longest 3d, implied uptime 99.96%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

Stated causes

17 incidents with no cause stated.

Postmortems

CriticalOct 20, 2025, 06:48 UTC
DynamoDB DNS failure takes down US-EAST-1A latent race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system left an empty DNS record for the regional endpoint dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, and the automation failed to repair it.lasted 14h 32mDNSPostmortem
CriticalDec 7, 2021, 15:30 UTC
Internal network congestion disrupts US-EAST-1An automated activity to scale capacity of a service in the main AWS network triggered unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network, congesting the devices between the internal and main networks.lasted 7h 10mNetworkPostmortem
CriticalFeb 28, 2017, 17:37 UTC
Mistyped command removes S3 index servers in US-EAST-1An S3 team member ran an established playbook command with one input entered incorrectly, removing far more servers than intended, including those behind the index and placement subsystems.lasted 4h 17mOperatorPostmortem

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Questions

Is AWS down right now?

Check AWS's own status page at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status for the live state. This page shows AWS's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-11-06: "Elevated Launch Failures".

How often does AWS have outages?

AWS posted 8 incidents in the last 90 days and 28 in the last year, 0 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 2h 20m.

When was AWS's last major outage?

2026-07-16: "Increased 5xx Errors", lasting 3h 38m.

What usually causes AWS incidents?

Where AWS explained the cause, the most common was network (7 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.