Outage in AWS
Increased Error Rates - N. Virginia
Resolved Minor
September 21, 2026 - Started about 3 hours ago
- Lasted about 1 hour
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
AWS US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia) experienced elevated API error rates affecting new EC2 instance launches, including failures with RunInstances, CreateFleet, and related launch workflows, along with degraded performance across a broad range of services including ECS, EKS, ELB, SageMaker, CloudFront, and others. Existing running instances were not impacted. The incident lasted approximately one hour, with engineers identifying initial signs of recovery and recommending retries of failed API calls.
We are investigating increased API error rates in the US-EAST-1 Region.
Components affected
Amazon CloudFront Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 (us-east-1) Amazon ECS Amazon ECS (us-east-1) Amazon EKS Amazon EKS (us-east-1) Amazon ELB Amazon ELB (us-east-1) Amazon EMR Amazon EMR (us-east-1) Amazon OpenSearch Service Amazon OpenSearch Service (us-east-1) Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker (us-east-1) Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces (us-east-1) AWS AppSync AWS AppSync (us-east-1) AWS DataSync AWS DataSync (us-east-1) AWS Global Accelerator AWS NAT Gateway AWS NAT Gateway (us-east-1) AWS Site-to-Site VPN AWS Site-to-Site VPN (us-east-1) AWS Transit Gateway AWS Transit Gateway (us-east-1) AWS VPCE PrivateLink AWS VPCE PrivateLink (us-east-1) Traffic Mirroring Traffic Mirroring (us-east-1) AWS Fargate AWS Fargate (us-east-1)Trusted by 1,000+ teams
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UPDATE
about 2 hours ago - at 09/21/2026 11:44PM
We can confirm increased error rates affecting new instance launches, including elevated API error rates for RunInstances, CreateFleet, and related EC2 launch workflows in the US-EAST-1 Region. Customers attempting to launch new EC2 instances may experience launch failures or elevated API response latency. Our engineers are actively engaged and working towards recovering the issue. We are seeing initial signs of recovery. Existing instances remain unaffected. We recommend retrying failed RunInstances and CreateFleet API calls. We will provide an update by 5:30 PM PDT or sooner.
UPDATE
about 3 hours ago - at 09/21/2026 11:26PM
We are investigating increased API error rates in the US-EAST-1 Region.
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