Is Amazon Web Services down?
Live status for Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com)
About Amazon Web Services outages
AWS is the largest cloud provider, hosting a substantial fraction of the internet. Its regional incidents — especially in us-east-1 — are infamous for taking down apps, smart devices, and websites that users never associated with Amazon.
Amazon Web Services publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
Amazon Web Services FAQ
Why does an AWS outage break so many apps at once?
Countless companies run on AWS compute, storage, and databases, and many concentrate in the us-east-1 region. A core service incident there cascades into streaming apps, games, IoT devices, and corporate tools within minutes — the AWS Health Dashboard shows scope per region.
How do I know if a website outage is really an AWS problem?
Check whether unrelated services failed at the same minute and whether the AWS Health Dashboard shows a regional incident. Simultaneous multi-service failures with an active us-east-1 event is the classic AWS signature; a single site failing alone usually is not.
Is Amazon Web Services down for everyone or just me?
We test Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check Amazon Web Services's official status channels.