Is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Down Right Now?
Live global uptime status, multi-region edge latency, official incident reports, and automated monitoring for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
aws.amazon.comComprehensive cloud platform covering EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and Route 53.
Primary edge roundtrip
Edge consensus
NA, EU, APAC Edge Nodes
Edge consensus mesh
Stop checking manually.
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) goes down or suffers silent latency degradation, you shouldn't be refreshing status pages, searching social feeds, or waiting for angry user reports. Get alerted the exact second Amazon Web Services (AWS) fails.
50 free monitors · 60s checks · 2-of-3 Edge Quorum · Zero card required
60-Second Intervals
Continuous HTTP, WebSocket & DNS checks from sovereign global edge nodes.
Quorum Consensus
Multi-region consensus verification prevents false alerts from transient routing blips.
Multi-Channel Alerts
Instant incident notifications to Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS, PagerDuty & Webhooks.
import { defineMonitor } from "@steadystack/core";
export default defineMonitor({
name: "Amazon Web Services (AWS) API & Health",
target: "https://aws.amazon.com",
interval: "60s",
consensus: { requiredRegions: 3 },
alerts: ["slack-dev-ops", "pagerduty-p1", "discord-incidents"],
});Managing client websites that depend on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Never let clients call you about third-party downtime first. SteadyStack lets you monitor all your client stores and web apps, publish 100% white-label status portals on custom domains, and deliver automatic monthly SLA compliance PDFs.
Global Edge Reachability & Regional Latency
Synthetic probe response times tested from SteadyStack sovereign vantage points.
Downtime Impact Analysis
What happens when Amazon Web Services (AWS) degrades
us-east-1 outages take down hundreds of SaaS platforms, S3 buckets error, Lambda executions fail.
Common HTTP Error Codes Observed
Critical Monitored Subsystems
Components tracked on aws.amazon.com
Engineering Resilience Guide: Surviving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outages
Defensive software architecture patterns to prevent third-party cascade failures.
Immediate Tactical Steps
- 1Check AWS Health Dashboard for specific regional degraded events (especially us-east-1 / us-west-2).
- 2Trigger multi-region failover via Route 53 DNS routing policies.
- 3Check CloudWatch alarms and S3 read/write error metrics.
Recommended Resiliency Patterns
Circuit Breaker Pattern: Automatically trip and fallback to cache when Amazon Web Services (AWS) error rates exceed 15% in a 30s rolling window.
Idempotent Background Retries: Push failed API events into an asynchronous dead-letter queue with exponential backoff and jitter.
Multi-Region Edge Synthetic Consensus: Rely on SteadyStack to alert your team before end-users notice degradation.
Frequently Asked Questions: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability & Monitoring
Everything you need to know about tracking Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages and SLA reliability.