Major AWS Outage Happening

elaus wrote: post #5

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #4

Isn't there a better source of information than Reddit?

Maybe the mods can change it to https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

amazon's health page is widely enjoyed as a work of fiction. community reports on places like reddit are, actually, more reliable.

Re: Major AWS Outage Happening

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Post by Havoc » Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #4

Isn't there a better source of information than Reddit?

Probably not. The sysadmin sub is usually the first place stuff like this shows up because there’s a bunch of oncall guys there

Re: Major AWS Outage Happening

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Post by dang » Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

croemer wrote: post #7

Here's the AWS status page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020

We've merged the comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838, which that URL.