Is AWS Down?

Q: Is AWS down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time AWS availability. If AWS is down, you can also check their official status page at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status for incident updates.

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About AWS

AWS is the largest cloud provider, running hundreds of services across compute (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), databases (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora), networking (VPC, Route 53, CloudFront), AI (Bedrock, SageMaker), and more, across dozens of regions globally. Outages are almost always scoped to a single service in a single region, e.g. EC2 in us-east-1 (Virginia), which historically has been the most incident-prone region due to legacy dependencies. A full us-east-1 outage causes internet-wide ripples because many global services route through it for IAM and control-plane operations. AWS Personal Health Dashboard is the authoritative per-account incident view.

The official AWS status page is at health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is AWS down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time AWS availability. If AWS is down, you can also check their official status page at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status for incident updates.

How do I check if AWS is having issues?+

This page checks AWS availability in real time. You can also monitor AWS continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when AWS goes down.

How can I get alerted when AWS goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for aws.amazon.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official AWS status page?+

The official AWS status page is at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects AWS issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why do us-east-1 outages affect other AWS regions?+

us-east-1 hosts several global AWS control-plane services including IAM, CloudFront origin routing, STS, and Route 53 management. Data-plane traffic is region-isolated, but control-plane actions (deploying, scaling, creating resources) can fail globally during us-east-1 incidents.

Does the AWS public status page show all incidents?+

The public status.aws.amazon.com page shows widely-impacting incidents. Account-specific issues appear on your AWS Health Dashboard inside the console. Some outages only show on the private dashboard for affected customers and are not listed publicly.