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AWS · Cloud and hostingJul 15, 2026, 23:11 UTC

Elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zone

MinorNetworkUpdated 19h ago
Jul 15, 23:11 UTCJul 16, 01:24 UTC
Duration
2h 13m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Network
AWS, 90 days
12 incidents
Affected
Multiple serviceseu-central-1
Status page

Final update

Between 2:56 PM and 6:07 PM PDT, we experienced connectivity issues to a subset of EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (euc1-az2) in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. During this time, customers may also have experienced increased error rates and latencies for new instance launches in the affected zone, along with some AWS APIs that use the affected EC2 instances. Some AWS Services also experienced connectivity issues and increased error rates within the affected zone. Engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began investigating. As part of our recovery effort, we shifted traffic away from the impacted Availability Zone for affected services at 3:04 PM. At 3:05 PM we identified the root cause to be a recent networking change causing the impact. Engineers immediately began reverting this change which completed at 4:28 PM. This resulted in restoration of network connectivity to the affected zone at 4:30 PM. We continued to work until we fully recovered the impacts at 6:07 PM. We do not expect this issue to reoccur. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Jul 16, 01:24 UTC
    Between 2:56 PM and 6:07 PM PDT, we experienced connectivity issues to a subset of EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (euc1-az2) in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. During this time, customers may also have experienced increased error rates and latencies for new instance launches in the affected zone, along with some AWS APIs that use the affected EC2 instances. Some AWS Services also experienced connectivity issues and increased error rates within the affected zone. Engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began investigating. As part of our recovery effort, we shifted traffic away from the impacted Availability Zone for affected services at 3:04 PM. At 3:05 PM we identified the root cause to be a recent networking change causing the impact. Engineers immediately began reverting this change which completed at 4:28 PM. This resulted in restoration of network connectivity to the affected zone at 4:30 PM. We continued to work until we fully recovered the impacts at 6:07 PM. We do not expect this issue to reoccur. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
  2. Update · Jul 15, 23:36 UTC
    We are seeing early signs of recovery and continue to work toward full resolution. We will continue to provide updates.
  3. Update · Jul 15, 23:11 UTC
    We are investigating elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zone (euc1-az2) in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region.

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Aug 2102:02 UTCIncreased Error Rates38m
Aug 1915:15 UTCIncreased Error Rates3h 32m
Aug 1503:42 UTCIncreased Packet loss3d
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