AWS Down — March 27, 2026 Outage Report

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AWS US-East-1 experienced a major outage affecting EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS services. Thousands of downstream services were impacted.

Started March 27, 2026 at 6:00 AMResolved March 27, 2026 at 2:30 PMDuration: 8h 30m

Affected regions: US East (N. Virginia)

Incident Timeline

InvestigatingMarch 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM

We are investigating increased error rates in the US-EAST-1 region.

IdentifiedMarch 27, 2026 at 6:45 AM

A networking issue in US-EAST-1 is causing service disruptions across multiple AWS services.

MonitoringMarch 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM

Recovery is underway. EC2 and S3 are showing improvement. Lambda and RDS remain degraded.

ResolvedMarch 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM

All AWS services in US-EAST-1 have been fully restored.

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