What is AWS IAM current status?

AWS IAM is currently operational. You can check AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM has issues. AWS official status page might also offer notification options such as email, SMS, or Slack.

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AWS IAM Status. Is AWS IAM Down?

Q: Is AWS IAM down today?

AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM outages, issues and problems' at the top of the page.

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Is AWS IAM down right now?

AWS IAM is working normally

IsDown checked AWS IAM status on January 09, 2026 at 01:49 AM CST, and appears to be operational. We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours. IsDown collects in real-time AWS IAM status data from official sources and user reports.

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AWS IAM service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours

Check the number of user-reported issues 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.

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User reports for AWS IAM

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

3 months ago

Unable to log into AWS for member accounts. Also unable to access IAM > Users list An unexpected error occurred. Australia.
about 1 year ago

Harry - I'm getting rate limit exceeded on any type of IAM role operation.
over 1 year ago

George - Unable to create IAM role: API Error (Rate Exceeded).

AWS IAM outages and downtime history

IsDown has tracked 24 incidents for AWS IAM since started monitoring AWS status in May 2020. We collect data from 5350+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage. It will show official AWS IAM outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.

Minor about 13 hours

Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia

Oct 20, 2025 at 04:31 AM

Minor about 16 hours

Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia

Oct 20, 2025 at 02:11 AM

Minor 35 minutes

Increased Error Rates and Latencies

Sep 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM

Minor 19 minutes

Increased error rates and latency

Aug 27, 2025 at 02:01 PM

Minor 28 minutes

Increased API Error Rates

Feb 25, 2025 at 06:48 AM

Minor about 1 hour

Increased error rates affecting IAM Control Plane API requests

Jan 04, 2025 at 03:42 PM

Minor 12 minutes

Increased Latencies and Errors - Oregon

Sep 25, 2024 at 04:05 PM

Major 41 minutes

Increased Error Rates - Milan

Sep 11, 2024 at 03:34 PM

Minor about 1 hour

Connectivity Issues

Aug 29, 2024 at 04:31 AM

Minor about 6 hours

Increased API Error Rates - N. Virginia

Jul 30, 2024 at 05:40 PM

Date	Incident	Duration
Oct 20, 2025 04:31 AM CDT	Minor Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST...	about 13 hours
Oct 20, 2025 02:11 AM CDT	Minor Increased Error Rates and Latencies - N. Virginia We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST...	about 16 hours
Sep 26, 2025 10:25 PM CDT	Minor Increased Error Rates and Latencies We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for the IAM APIs.	35 minutes
Aug 27, 2025 02:01 PM CDT	Minor Increased error rates and latency We are investigating increased error rates and latency issues in the EU-SOUTH-2 Region.	19 minutes
Feb 25, 2025 06:48 AM CST	Minor Increased API Error Rates We are investigating an increase in API errors for AWS Identity and Access Management. Customers ...	28 minutes
Jan 04, 2025 03:42 PM CST	Minor Increased error rates affecting IAM Control Plane API requests We are investigating increased error rates affecting IAM Control Plane API requests. Authenticati...	about 1 hour
Sep 25, 2024 04:05 PM CDT	Minor Increased Latencies and Errors - Oregon Beginning at 12:40 PM PDT customers began to experience elevated latency and errors across multip...	12 minutes
Sep 11, 2024 03:34 PM CDT	Major Increased Error Rates - Milan We are investigating increased error rates for multiple services in the EU-SOUTH-1 Region. We are...	41 minutes
Aug 29, 2024 04:31 AM CDT	Minor Connectivity Issues We are investigating connectivity issues, impacting requests made to AWS STS (Security Token Serv...	about 1 hour
Jul 30, 2024 05:40 PM CDT	Minor Increased API Error Rates - N. Virginia We are seeing increased error rates and latencies for some service APIs within the US-EAST-1 regi...	about 6 hours

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AWS IAM components or services current status

Component	Status
AWS Identity and Access Management (US-East)	OK
AWS Identity and Access Management (US-West)	OK

Frequently Asked Questions

Is AWS IAM down today?

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

What is the current AWS IAM status?

AWS IAM is currently operational. You can check AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM down today or just slow?

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

How are AWS IAM outages detected?

IsDown monitors the AWS IAM 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 AWS IAM having an outage right now?

AWS IAM 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.

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