Is AWS down?

The status at the top of this page comes from Hyperping checks of AWS, run every minute and refreshed on the page every 60 seconds. Green means the latest checks succeeded; red means they are failing, confirmed from several regions.

We monitor 4 AWS services every minute, in turn from Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore: AWS Console (console.aws.amazon.com, up on a successful response), S3 (us-east-1) (hp-isdown-probe-0x7f3a.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, up on a 404 response), DynamoDB (us-east-1) (dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, up on a successful response) and Website (aws.amazon.com, up on a successful response). When a check fails, other regions check again before that service counts as down. AWS counts as down when all of them are, and as partly down when only some are. AWS runs each region on its own: we check us-east-1 (N. Virginia), where the largest AWS outages have started, plus the Console and aws.amazon.com. Another region can fail without these checks seeing it.

An outage can be partial: one feature, one app, one country or one internet provider, and our checks see AWS from data centers. Try another network such as mobile data, update or restart the app, and check the official status page for an incident on one feature.

Yes, AWS Health Dashboard. AWS's team updates it by hand, so it can lag behind the start of an outage; our checks run every minute whatever it says.

Yes. Create a free Hyperping account and add console.aws.amazon.com as a monitor: you are alerted by email, Slack or your other channels within a minute of a failure. The free plan includes 20 monitors, enough for your own site and the services it depends on.