Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#1

Post by ajdude » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

There's nothing on health.aws.amazon.com but I'm getting reports of performance failure on systems that utilize AWS...

Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#2

Post by nodesocket » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

Don't see any issues in us-east-2 (Ohio) with my infra, but typically issues arise in us-east-1.

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#3

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#4

Post by danudey » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

I'm currently in the process of spinning up a k8s in us-west-2 and no issues, but, as others have said, us-east-1 is the problem child so I guess we'll see.

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#5

Post by paulddraper » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

Down detector is much much higher when there is a real problem.

There might be something, but wouldn’t be widespread.

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#6

Post by tdubey » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

Disclosure, I work for Datadog:

https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws

Looks fine for now.

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#7

Post by nodesocket » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

tdubey wrote: post #6

Disclosure, I work for Datadog: https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws Looks fine for now.

This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#8

Post by dewey » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #7

tdubey wrote: post #6

Disclosure, I work for Datadog: https://updog.ai/status/amazonaws Looks fine for now.

This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?

Which uptime checker tool would be based on status pages (owned by the marketing department)? That defeats the whole purpose.

Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#9

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:35 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #8

nodesocket wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?

Which uptime checker tool would be based on status pages (owned by the marketing department)? That defeats the whole purpose.

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Re: Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

#10

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 4:37 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #8

nodesocket wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?

Which uptime checker tool would be based on status pages (owned by the marketing department)? That defeats the whole purpose.

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