Increased Packet loss - Frankfurt

AWS Direct Connect connectivity remains impaired for customers with connections at the Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, DEU. Customers with multi-site or redundant configurations across other locations continue to be unaffected. Engineers are actively working to restore connectivity, with efforts ongoing across multiple workstreams to resolve the underlying facility issue and bring the impacted network equipment back into service. We continue to expect recovery is multiple hours away. For a workaround, impacted customers who have the option to failover to VPN are recommended to do so. For customers using Direct Connect gateway and Transit Gateway, we recommend creating a AWS Site-to-Site VPN and attaching it to your Transit Gateway, refer to steps here. For other customers we recommend establishing an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a temporary backup path, refer to steps here. We will provide another update within 2 hours or as soon as we have more information to share.

We continue to work towards recovery of connectivity for AWS Direct Connect connections at Equinix FR5, Frankfurt, DEU. The root cause is related to a facility infrastructure issue at the location that is impacting network infrastructure. Customers with connections solely at this location will continue to experience packet loss or connectivity degradation. Customers with multi-site or redundant configurations across other locations are not impacted. For a workaround, impacted customers who have the option available to failover to VPN are recommended to do so. For customers using Direct Connect gateway and Transit Gateway, we recommend creating a AWS Site-to-Site VPN and attaching it to your Transit Gateway, refer to steps here. For other customers we recommend establishing an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a temporary backup path, refer to steps here. As of this time, we expect recovery is multiple hours away. We will provide another update within 2 hours or as soon as we have more information to share.

We are actively working to restore connectivity through the Direct Connect location: Equinix FR5, Frankfurt, DEU. Customers whom only have connections at the Equinix FR5, Frankfurt, DEU location will continue to experience connectivity issues. For a workaround impacted customers who have the option available to failover to VPN are recommended to do so to achieve recovery. For customers using Direct Connect gateway and Transit Gateway, we recommend creating a AWS Site-to-Site VPN and attach it to your Transit Gateway, refer steps here. For other customers we recommend establishing a AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a temporary backup path, refer steps here. As of this time, we expect recovery is multiple hours away. We will provide another update in 90 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

Starting at 7:33 PM PDT, we began experiencing increased packet loss impacting AWS Direct Connect connectivity for some customers in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. While we have made progress, connections to the following Direct Connect location are still impaired: Equinix FR5, Frankfurt, DEU. Customers who have multi-site redundancy configured with their Direct Connect paths should not be observing impact at this time. Customers whom only have connections at the Equinix FR5, Frankfurt, DEU location will continue to experience connectivity issues. We are actively working to mitigate the impact and work toward full recovery, but expect full recovery is multiple hours away. We will provide an update in 90 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

We can confirm packet loss impacting Direct Connect connections in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. Engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began working to both identify the root cause, and identify multiple parallel paths to mitigate the issue. At this time, we are seeing early signs of recovery. We will provide another update in 60 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

We are investigating increased packet loss, impacting AWS Direct Connect connectivity for some customers in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region.