Increased Launch Failures

8:39 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for new launches that uses EBS Encryption by Default in the US-EAST-1 Region for three Availability Zones: use1-az2, use1-az6 and use1-az5. Existing instances are not affected, and no other launch requests are affected. We have identified the root cause and are working towards recovery.

9:18 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for new launches that use EBS Encryption by Default in the US-EAST-1 Region. Existing instances are not affected, and no other launch requests are affected. We have identified the root cause. We are seeing recovery in use1-az5. We continue to work towards recovery in the following Availability Zones: use1-az2, use1-az6.

10:18 AM PDT We have identified the root cause for increased error rates for new launches in the US-EAST-1 Region. The event affects instances which use EBS Encryption with unencrypted AMIs. Existing instances are not affected. The Availability Zone use1-az5 recovered at 9:05 AM PDT. We continue to work towards recovery in the following Availability Zones: use1-az2, use1-az6.

10:46 AM PDT We have identified the root cause for increased error rates for new launches in the US-EAST-1 Region. The event affects instances which use EBS Encryption with unencrypted AMIs. Existing instances are not affected. The Availability Zone use1-az5 recovered at 9:05 AM PDT. We began seeing significant recovery in use-az6 at 10:20 AM PDT and are beginning to see recovery in use1-az2.