Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage started on Dec 7, 2021 at approximately 15:40 UTC impacting various regions worldwide.
The AWS status page reported API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region, which is used to host the AWS global console landing page. The trouble included elevated error rates for EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1 region.
At 12:34 EST, the company said the root cause was "impairment of several network devices," confirmed that recovery was underway, but could not provide an ETA for full recovery.
