AWS EC2 Outage in US-East-1
Severity: CRITICAL
A major outage has impacted AWS EC2 instances in the US-East-1 region, causing widespread service disruption for hosted applications.
Affected Scope
- Providers: AWS
- Services: EC2
- Regions: US-East-1
- Customer Impact: Customers report instance connectivity losses and application downtime.
Impact
- Service interruption
- Application downtime
- Business operations halted
Who Should Care
- DevOps teams
- Cloud infrastructure managers
- Application owners with deployments in US-East-1
Recommended Actions
- Failover to other AWS regions if possible
- Monitor AWS status page for updates
- Initiate disaster recovery procedures
Last update: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:50:40 GMT
