Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zone

ResolvedminorUnverified reportFirst recorded update Jul 16, 2026, 01:24 AM · Resolved Jul 16, 2026, 01:24 AM

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...

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