Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rates

ResolvedminorUnverified reportFirst recorded update Aug 19, 2026, 06:47 PM · Resolved Aug 19, 2026, 06:47 PM

Between August 18 5:00 PM and August 19 11:00 AM PDT, we experienced elevated errors launching EC2 instances in a newly launched Availability Zone (euw2-az4) in the EU-WEST-2 Region. After the new Availability Zone launch, we began experiencing errors when using a default VPC. We discovered the root cause of the issue on August 19 at 9:00 AM and began deploying a change to resolve the issue at 9:30 AM. While the change was underway, we began to see incremental improvements in new instance launches, with full recovery at 11:00 AM. Existing running instances and resources were not affected....

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