Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The world's largest cloud platform, providing compute, storage, networking, AI, and database services used by millions of organizations.
What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Is Amazon Web Services (AWS) down? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest and most comprehensive cloud computing platform, launched in 2006 and operated by Amazon.com. AWS offers over 200 fully featured services spanning compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), networking (VPC, Route 53, CloudFront), machine learning (SageMaker, Bedrock), security (IAM, GuardDuty), and virtually every other infrastructure category an organisation might need. With data centres in over 30 geographic regions and more than 100 Availability Zones worldwide, AWS serves millions of customers ranging from individual developers and startups to governments and Fortune 100 enterprises.
AWS's market position is foundational: it powers a significant portion of the internet's infrastructure, meaning AWS outages can cascade into widespread disruptions across hundreds of thousands of websites and applications simultaneously. Well-known AWS customers include Netflix, Airbnb, NASA, the CIA, and the majority of major technology companies. AWS generates over $90 billion annually and represents Amazon's most profitable business segment, subsidising the company's retail operations. When AWS experiences an incident in its us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) region — the company's largest — the ripple effects are typically visible across the entire internet.
AWS outages are significant global technology events. Common incident types include specific service degradation (S3 retrieval failures, EC2 instance provisioning delays, RDS connection errors), regional Availability Zone failures, networking incidents affecting traffic routing, and IAM authentication disruptions that lock customers out of their own infrastructure. AWS posts incident status updates to its Service Health Dashboard, but community-submitted outage reports often provide faster early-warning signals.
If AWS is down, Outage.gg tracks AWS server status and outage history in real time. If AWS is experiencing an incident, visit the live status page for community reports and subscribe for an instant notification when specific services and regions recover.
Common Amazon Web Services (AWS) Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Amazon Web Services (AWS) is having problems.
Service unavailability
API calls are failing, dashboards are unreachable, or the service is returning 5xx errors.
Slow performance / high latency
Response times are significantly above normal, causing timeouts and degraded user experience.
Authentication failures
API keys, OAuth tokens, or SSO logins are being rejected unexpectedly.
Data sync & storage issues
Files, databases, or synced data are not updating, missing, or inaccessible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages and server status.
You can check the live Amazon Web Services (AWS) server status at outage.gg/services/amazon-web-services-aws. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/amazon-web-services-aws and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) status page at outage.gg/services/amazon-web-services-aws. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Amazon Web Services (AWS) comes back online — no app download required.
Yes. You can find official announcements at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) website: https://aws.amazon.com. For real-time community outage data, Outage.gg tracks user reports as they happen and often picks up problems before official announcements.
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