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AWS outage history

AWS published 10 incidents on its official status page since Mar 1, 2026. 2 were major or long incidents with their own pages; the biggest are listed first. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.

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Biggest AWS outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

  1. Mar 1, 2026: Increased Error Rates (Multiple services, ME-CENTRAL-1) ongoing · rated "Service disruption"
  2. Mar 2, 2026: Increased connectivity issues and API Error Rates (Multiple services, ME-SOUTH-1) ongoing · rated "Service disruption"

Every smaller AWS incident

Minor and short incidents from the AWS Health Dashboard, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

September 2026

August 2026

  • Aug 21, 2026, 02:02 UTC · Increased Error Rates (CONNECT, AP-NORTHEAST-1)

    38 minutes · impact not stated

    "日本時間 8:58 AM から 10:34 AM の間、AP-NORTHEAST-1 リージョンにおける Amazon Connect のリアルタイムメトリクスに影響する遅延が増加し、データが欠落する、またはデータが最新の状態に更新されない事象が発生しました。この間、お客様は分析レポート内で一部のデータが反映されない状況を経験した可能性があり、また、コンタクトフロー内でリアルタイムメトリクス (例: 人員の確認ブロック)..."

  • Aug 19, 2026, 15:15 UTC · Increased Error Rates (EC2, EU-WEST-2)

    3 hours 32 min · impact not stated

    "Between August 18 5:00 PM and August 19 11:00 AM PDT, we experienced elevated errors launching EC2 instances in a newly launched Availability Zone (euw2-az4) in the EU-WEST-2 Region."

  • Aug 15, 2026, 03:42 UTC · Increased Packet loss (DIRECTCONNECT, EU-CENTRAL-1)

    3 days · impact not stated

    "Starting August 14 7:33 PM PDT, we experienced increased packet loss impacting AWS Direct Connect connectivity for customers with connections at the Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, DEU."

July 2026

  • Jul 31, 2026, 17:33 UTC · Elevated Packet Loss (DIRECTCONNECT, AP-SOUTH-1)

    1 hour 21 min · impact not stated

    "Between 9:42 AM and 11:44 AM PDT, we experienced elevated network packet loss impacting AWS Direct Connect connectivity in the AP-SOUTH-1 Region. Our engineering team was automatically engaged at 9:46 AM to begin investigating."

  • Jul 24, 2026, 11:40 UTC · Connectivity Issues (Multiple services, US-WEST-2)

    1 hour 31 min · impact not stated

    "Between 3:55 AM and 4:15 AM PDT, we experienced connectivity issues that impacted connectivity to the US-WEST-2 Region. This impacted multiple AWS services in the Region."

AWS uptime, last 90 days

Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.

Uptime100%
Avg response222 ms
Problems, 30 days1
Last problemOngoing
90 days agoUp Degraded Down No dataToday

Every AWS problem in the last 90 days

  • Degraded

    Multiple services: Region Availability

    Oct 7, 2026, 21:23 UTC · ongoing for 351 hours 13 min · from AWS's official status page

Day by day

Day (UTC)UptimeAvg responseWorst
Oct 22, 2026100%148 msDegraded
Oct 21, 2026100%227 msDegraded
Oct 20, 2026100%201 msDegraded
Oct 19, 2026100%240 msDegraded
Oct 18, 2026100%235 msDegraded
Oct 17, 2026100%261 msDegraded
Oct 16, 2026100%236 msDegraded
Oct 15, 2026100%228 msDegraded
Oct 14, 2026100%230 msDegraded
Oct 13, 2026100%237 msDegraded
Oct 12, 2026100%228 msDegraded
Oct 11, 2026100%205 msDegraded
Oct 10, 2026100%195 msDegraded
Oct 9, 2026100%213 msDegraded
Oct 8, 2026100%190 msDegraded
Oct 7, 2026100%280 msDegraded

AWS outage questions

Was AWS down today?

Yes. AWS had a problem today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC): Multiple services: Region Availability (degraded, still ongoing).

Was AWS down yesterday?

Yes. AWS had a problem yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC): Multiple services: Region Availability (degraded, still ongoing).

When was AWS last down?

Right now: a problem started on Oct 7, 2026, 21:23 UTC: Multiple services: Region Availability.

What was the biggest AWS outage?

Of the incidents on record since Mar 1, 2026, the biggest was on Mar 1, 2026: Increased Error Rates (Multiple services, ME-CENTRAL-1). The AWS Health Dashboard rated it "Service disruption" and it lasted ongoing, 234 days 24 hours so far.

How often does AWS go down?

AWS's status page posted 10 incidents since Mar 1, 2026, 1 of them in the last 30 days. Most incidents affect part of the service, not all of it. Uptime from our own checks over the last 90 days: 100%.

Times are UTC. Official incidents are the company's own posts, quoted from the AWS Health Dashboard. Problem periods start when the official status page or our checks first show a problem and end when the service is next found working, so durations are accurate to within a few minutes. Recent outages across all services.