What is Amazon RDS current status?

Amazon RDS is currently operational. You can check Amazon RDS status and current incidents and outages on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the issues affecting customers.

How to monitor or check Amazon RDS status?

You can use IsDown service or go to AWS official status page. Some accounts also use Twitter to communicate the status.

How can I be notified when Amazon RDS is having issues or undergoing maintenance?

You can create an account in IsDown and monitor multiple services or subscribe for updates on the official status page. IsDown will send you a notification in real-time when Amazon RDS has issues. AWS official status page might also offer notification options such as email, SMS, or Slack.

Amazon RDS status. Is Amazon RDS down right now?

Q: Is Amazon RDS down today?

Amazon RDS was not down today according to the official status page. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported. IsDown continuously monitors the AWS status page, looking for the latest outages and issues affecting customers. Check all recent outages in the section 'Latest Amazon RDS outages, issues and problems' at the top of the page.

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Is Amazon RDS down?

Amazon RDS is working normally

IsDown checked Amazon RDS status on January 18, 2026 at 04:47 AM UTC, and appears to be operational. We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours. IsDown collects in real-time Amazon RDS status data from official sources and user reports.

Amazon Relational Database Service is a component of AWS ›

Monitoring since May 2020 · 16 incidents caught · 5,228 components tracked in real-time

Issues reported in the last 24 hours

Number of user-reported issues for Amazon RDS over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe.

See where Amazon RDS users are reporting performance issues or even downtime. The map shows recent reports from around the world.

Amazon Relational Database Service Outages Map

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Recent outage reports

See what users are saying about Amazon RDS issues that impacted them and how they are affected by the outage.

about 1 year ago

Tri - Temporary failure in name resolution.
about 1 year ago

vicky - all queries taking long time.
about 1 year ago

Jose - Connections timing out randomly.
over 1 year ago

Peter - Servers not connecting right.
over 1 year ago

Saurabh - AWS RDS connection time out and slowness issue..
almost 2 years ago

Mitul - RDS london region.
about 2 years ago

Alex - I cannot create or drop stored procedure on eu-west-3.
about 2 years ago

Ramp - getting connection timeout from many of our customer RDS databases. Earlier we thought it as a isolated problem, it looks like a AWS RDS service issue globally..

Downtime health for the last 90 days

In the last 90 days, AWS had 2 incidents with a median duration of 14 hours 37 minutes.

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Incidents

Critical

Major Outages

Warning

Minor Incidents

Duration

14 hour

Median Resolution

Latest incidents and outages history

IsDown has tracked 16 incidents for Amazon RDS since started monitoring AWS status in May 2020. We collect data from 5420+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage. It will show official Amazon RDS outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.

about 13 hours

Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia

Oct 20, 2025 at 09:31 AM

about 16 hours

Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia

Oct 20, 2025 at 07:11 AM

8 minutes

Network Connectivity and Increased Error Rates - Tokyo

Jun 05, 2025 at 04:06 AM

30 minutes

Elevated API error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region - H...

May 29, 2025 at 05:47 PM

about 1 hour

Elevated API error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region - H...

May 29, 2025 at 05:29 PM

39 minutes

Connectivity Issues - Tokyo

Apr 15, 2025 at 08:15 AM

about 2 hours

Increased Error rates - Osaka

Feb 27, 2025 at 01:17 AM

about 5 hours

Increased Error Rates and Latencies - Stockholm

Feb 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM

about 2 hours

Increased API errors rates for mutatable VPC calls - Seoul

Nov 10, 2024 at 03:55 PM

about 3 hours

Elevated API error rates - US-West

Apr 24, 2024 at 05:13 PM

Title	Started At	Duration
Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST...	Oct 20, 2025 at 09:31 AM UTC	about 13 hours
Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST...	Oct 20, 2025 at 07:11 AM UTC	about 16 hours
Network Connectivity and Increased Error Rates - Tokyo Between 7:26 PM and 8:13 PM PDT we experienced increased packet loss and latency in a single avai...	Jun 05, 2025 at 04:06 AM UTC	8 minutes
Elevated API error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region - Hyderabad We are investigating elevated API Error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region.	May 29, 2025 at 05:47 PM UTC	30 minutes
Elevated API error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region - Hyderabad We are investigating elevated API Error rates and connectivity issues in the AP-SOUTH-2 Region.	May 29, 2025 at 05:29 PM UTC	about 1 hour
Connectivity Issues - Tokyo We are investigating connectivity issues affecting instances in a single Availability Zone (apne1...	Apr 15, 2025 at 08:15 AM UTC	39 minutes
Increased Error rates - Osaka AP-NORTHEAST-3 リージョンの単一のアベイラビリティーゾーン (apne3-az3) において、新規 EC2 インスタンスの起動、および EBS ボリュームを作成または変更する操作の...	Feb 27, 2025 at 01:17 AM UTC	about 2 hours
Increased Error Rates and Latencies - Stockholm We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for AWS Services in the EU-NORTH-1 Region.	Feb 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM UTC	about 5 hours
Increased API errors rates for mutatable VPC calls - Seoul 현재 AP-NORTHEAST-2 리전에서 CreateVPC, CreateSecurityGroup 및 CreateNetworkInterface 등과 같은 VPC API에 API...	Nov 10, 2024 at 03:55 PM UTC	about 2 hours
Elevated API error rates - US-West We are experiencing elevated API error rates in a single Availability Zone (usgw1-az1) in the US-...	Apr 24, 2024 at 05:13 PM UTC	about 3 hours

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Components / Services / Regions current status

Check the current status of the 18 components, services, or regions being monitored for Amazon RDS.

Component	Status
Amazon Relational Database Service (Bahrain)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Calgary)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Canada-Central)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Cape Town)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Frankfurt)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Hong Kong)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Hyderabad)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Ireland)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Jakarta)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (London)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Melbourne)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Milan)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Montreal)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Mumbai)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (N. California)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Ohio)	OK
Amazon Relational Database Service (Oregon)	OK

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Amazon RDS down today?

Amazon RDS isn't down. You can check Amazon RDS status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Amazon RDS official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current Amazon RDS status?

Amazon RDS is currently operational. You can check Amazon RDS status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Amazon RDS outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Amazon RDS down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Amazon RDS being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Amazon RDS outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Amazon RDS official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

Is Amazon RDS having an outage right now?

Amazon RDS last outage was on October 20, 2025 with the title "Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia"

How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring AWS?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if AWS is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about AWS's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.