Is AWS us-east-1 down right now?
Live status for the Amazon Web Services US East (N. Virginia) region (us-east-1), located in United States. We probe a public AWS endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside AWS's own infrastructure.
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About AWS us-east-1
US East (N. Virginia) — exposed as AWS us-east-1 — is a high-traffic Amazon Web Services region serving United States. Workloads here typically include primary production workloads, public-facing APIs, and SaaS control planes, so regional impact usually shows up downstream in those products before status pages catch up. What makes us-east-1 distinct is that it is the oldest and most relied-on AWS region — outages here ripple across the internet. 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
Regional issues often appear in independent probes before they are acknowledged on the provider's global status page.