Is AWS af-south-1 down right now?
Live status for the Amazon Web Services Africa (Cape Town) region (af-south-1), located in South Africa. We probe a public AWS endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside AWS's own infrastructure.
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About AWS af-south-1
AWS af-south-1 (Africa (Cape Town)) is one of Amazon Web Services's smaller-footprint regions in South Africa. It is most often used for African-region workloads where local presence matters, which means an outage here tends to surface as customer-facing issues for those workloads first. What makes af-south-1 distinct is that it is a smaller geographic-coverage region for South Africa. This page tracks reachability and latency from outside Amazon Web Services's own network, so a regional issue can be visible here before it lands on the official AWS status page.
For wider service-level context, see the global AWS status.
Why this may differ from the official AWS status page
Official status pages can lag real incidents by several minutes. This page reflects what an external client sees right now.