AWS status: is it down right now?
Our own check of aws.amazon.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
aws.amazon.com responded. The page answered normally in 191 ms.
aws.amazon.com responded.
The page answered normally in 191 ms.
Checked (just now) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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This checks the response from aws.amazon.com. It does not test playback, login or every AWS feature.
AWS status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
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This page is for their outage. Your own site can fail the same way. See its first check free, then try a paid plan for 7 days (card required).
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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 available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours.
outage patterns
What outages typically look like on AWS
Cloud platforms like AWS rarely fail in obvious, all-or-nothing ways. The more common pattern is regional degradation: one availability zone or geographic region runs at half capacity while the rest of the platform serves traffic normally. Status pages often show green because the aggregate health check is still passing, even when a customer's specific workload is degraded.
The live tool above checks the public aws.amazon.com endpoint from EU and US and compares status and response time. That can reveal a regional reachability problem, but it cannot prove that every AWS product, API, or customer workload is healthy. Use the provider status reference and test the specific workflow you depend on before drawing a broader conclusion.
Common signs AWS is having issues
- Temporarily unavailable pages or requests timing out during normal browsing
- Sustained response-time drift above the AWS baseline (usually a precursor to hard failures)
- TLS handshake delays during peak hours that resolve at quieter times
- Regional disparity: one geography returns errors while another stays healthy
What to do when AWS is degraded
If AWS appears degraded, compare the EU and US endpoint results, open the provider status reference, and test the exact region and workflow your system uses. Preserve failed request IDs and timestamps for support. If only one region fails, use an alternate region only when your own failover policy permits it.
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Get independent uptime alerts when the public AWS endpoint fails a confirmed check. Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes; Business and Agency check every 60 seconds.
5-minute checks from Solo
Business and Agency support 60-second uptime checks.
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EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.
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why independent monitoring
Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor AWS on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track AWS uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.
Frequently asked questions
Is AWS down right now?
See the latest check of aws.amazon.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If AWS is down, you can also check the official status page for extra context.
How do I check if AWS is having issues?
This page checks the public AWS endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when AWS goes down?
Add aws.amazon.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find AWS outage context?
The official AWS status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Visual Sentinel checks the public AWS endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
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.
Often checked together with AWS
Many sites and apps run on these platforms, so one cloud problem can affect services that look unrelated.