AWS Service Outage Today

AWS Service Outage Today: Over 60 Services Impacted Across Regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud platform, is currently experiencing a major outage affecting over 60 AWS services globally. The disruption began earlier today and has impacted critical services such as Amazon EC2, EKS, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda, S3, and DocumentDB, along with many others.

⚠️ List of Impacted AWS Services

According to the AWS Service Health Dashboard, the following services are among those affected:

Compute & Containers: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Batch
Database Services: RDS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Amazon FSx
Networking & Content Delivery: CloudFront, VPC PrivateLink, Global Accelerator, NAT Gateway
Security & Identity: IAM, Secrets Manager, Security Token Service (STS), Private Certificate Authority
Developer Tools & Monitoring: CloudWatch, Systems Manager, CodePipeline
Machine Learning & Analytics: SageMaker, Glue, Kinesis, Q Business
Other Core Services: API Gateway, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, Elastic Load Balancing

A total of 60 AWS services are reported as “impaired” or “degraded” performance in multiple regions.

🕒 What’s Happening?

AWS has acknowledged the issue and is actively working to restore normal operations. Users are reporting failures in API requests, delayed responses, and connectivity issues with hosted applications. The outage appears to be affecting both enterprise-level services and consumer applications that rely on AWS infrastructure.

💡 What You Can Do

If your applications are hosted on AWS, consider the following steps:

Monitor AWS Health Dashboard – https://status.aws.amazon.com
Enable Multi-Region Redundancy – Deploy backups or failover in unaffected regions.
Use Status Notifications – Set up alerts through CloudWatch or third-party monitoring tools.
Communicate with Your Users – Inform customers of the ongoing issue and expected recovery updates.

📍 Affected Regions (So Far)

Preliminary reports suggest the US-East-1 and Asia Pacific regions are seeing the most disruption, though AWS has not yet released a full regional breakdown.

🔁 Current Status

AWS engineers are investigating the root cause. The latest update indicates some services are showing signs of recovery, but full restoration may take time.

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