Is AWS down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 12:18 UTC. StatusBird re-checks AWS's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Jul 10, 2026 12:21 UTC
- Held for
- 89 days 23 hours
AWS is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 12:18 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads AWS's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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AWS uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 0 major or critical AWS incidents totalling 0 minutes of downtime, for 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,661 independent checks. Full history: AWS reliability report.
AWS's 90-day uptime of 100.00% is above the Infrastructure category average of 99.21% across the 4 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
AWS risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any AWS degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often AWS has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- no degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- no major outages in the last 180 days
Scored Oct 08, 2026 12:16 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when AWS has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and health.aws.amazon.com/health/status as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when AWS enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- AWS's own status page. health.aws.amazon.com/health/status offers the subscription options on health.aws.amazon.com/health/status, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when AWS confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About AWS
Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. AWS outages can affect any service built on Amazon's cloud, including many e-commerce tools your store depends on.
StatusBird monitors AWS every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
AWS last five incidents
StatusBird recorded zero non-operational AWS readings in the last 90 days, across 64,661 checks every 2 minutes.
What to do when AWS is down
First, confirm it is actually AWS and not your store. Then contain the damage and communicate. Here is exactly how to do that during a AWS outage, plus what usually breaks and how long incidents tend to last.
How do I confirm AWS is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live AWS status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, AWS's own status page at health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a AWS outage look like?
- Your storefront fully down or extremely slow if hosted on AWS
- Broken images or assets served from S3 or CloudFront
- Multiple unrelated SaaS tools erroring or degraded at the same time
- Elevated API errors and timeouts from various integrations
- AWS Console unreachable or your monitoring showing region-wide failures
What breaks in your store
The blast radius of an AWS outage depends on what you run there and which region is affected. If your storefront is hosted on AWS, your entire site can go down or slow to a crawl: pages fail to load, images break if they are served from S3 or CloudFront, and backend APIs error out. Even if your store is hosted elsewhere, a major AWS incident often degrades multiple third-party tools at once, so you may see your email platform, analytics, fulfillment software, and support desk all misbehave simultaneously. Payment providers and platforms with AWS dependencies can see elevated errors even when your own hosting is fine.
For context, AWS has had no major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent monitoring (100.0% availability), so a real outage is unusual. That makes it easy to mistake one for a problem on your end, which is why confirming first matters.
What to do during the outage
- Check health.aws.amazon.com to identify which services and regions are affected before assuming your own code broke.
- If you run on AWS with multi-region capability, fail over to an unaffected region.
- Post a status update to customers on social channels or a status page hosted outside AWS.
- Hold off on deploys and infrastructure changes until AWS stabilizes, since control plane operations are often unreliable during incidents.
- Triage which of your third-party tools are affected and switch critical functions, like support email, to alternatives temporarily.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
My store is on Shopify, so does an AWS outage even affect me?
Possibly, but indirectly. Your storefront itself will likely stay up, but many of the apps and services around it, such as email platforms, review widgets, fulfillment tools, and analytics, may run on AWS and degrade during a major incident. Expect partial breakage rather than a full outage.
How do I know if a problem is AWS or my own site?
Check the AWS Health Dashboard for active incidents in your region and compare with independent reports like outage trackers. If multiple unrelated services you use are failing at the same time, a cloud provider incident is the likely common cause rather than your own configuration.
After the outage
Once AWS recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid AWS plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks AWS's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the AWS reliability page and current status on the AWS status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live AWS status it applies to.
AWS status FAQ
Is AWS down right now?
No. AWS is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Jul 10, 2026 at 12:21 UTC and has lasted 89 days 23 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 12:18 UTC.
How often does AWS go down?
StatusBird recorded zero major or critical AWS incidents in the last 90 days, at 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade. Minor degradation is excluded from that figure.
What is the chance AWS has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any AWS degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often AWS has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when AWS goes down?
Confirm the outage is on AWS's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a AWS outage is on this page, under 'What to do when AWS is down'.
How do I get notified when AWS goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to AWS's own status page at health.aws.amazon.com/health/status.
What should I do when AWS goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/aws, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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