Is AWS Down?

The AWS Service Health Dashboard at health.aws.amazon.com shows status for every service in every region. You can also check your AWS Personal Health Dashboard in the AWS Console, which shows events specifically affecting your account and resources.

No, AWS outages are almost always limited to specific services in specific regions. Even during major incidents, most AWS regions and services continue operating normally. However, because so many websites rely on AWS, a regional outage can affect a large number of popular sites simultaneously.

Individual AWS services maintain very high availability, typically 99.99% or better. However, with over 200 services across dozens of regions, some component is experiencing degradation on any given day. Major outages affecting core services like EC2 or S3 in a full region are rare, occurring a few times per year.

A service outage affects one specific AWS service (like S3 or Lambda) potentially across multiple regions. A regional outage affects multiple services within a single geographic region. Regional outages are more disruptive to applications hosted in that region but don't affect workloads in other regions.

AWS offers service credits through their SLA if uptime falls below guaranteed thresholds. Each service has its own SLA, typically guaranteeing 99.99% monthly uptime. You need to submit a credit request through the AWS Support Center within 30 days of the incident.