Is AWS ca-central-1 down right now?
Live status for the Amazon Web Services Canada (Central) region (ca-central-1), located in Canada. We probe a public AWS endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside AWS's own infrastructure.
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About AWS ca-central-1
AWS ca-central-1 (Canada (Central)) is one of Amazon Web Services's secondary regions in Canada. It is most often used for Canadian data-residency workloads and US-East failover, which means an outage here tends to surface as customer-facing issues for those workloads first. What makes ca-central-1 distinct is that it serves as a regional alternate or compliance-driven home region. 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.
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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.