AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage, 6 November 2026
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Oregon): [RESOLVED] Elevated Launch Failures
- Started
- Resolved
- 8 Nov 2026, 01:13 UTC (after 26 h 22 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Oregon
Is this still happening?
No. AWS (Amazon Web Services) marked this incident resolved on 8 Nov 2026, 01:13 UTC, 26 h 22 min after it began.
Right now: AWS (Amazon Web Services) reports all systems operational. (as of 13 Nov, 20:53 UTC) Live AWS (Amazon Web Services) status
At a glance
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) rated this a minor incident.
- It was resolved after 26 h 22 min.
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) had 1 other incident in the 30 days before it.
- 2 earlier incidents look like the same kind of problem (same affected part or wording); the most recent was on 11 Nov 2026.
Our summary from the AWS (Amazon Web Services) incidents we have recorded since 1 Mar 2026 - how we count.
Last update from AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Between 2:35 PM and 4:21 PM PST, we experienced elevated EC2 instance launch failures affecting all AZs (usw2-az1, usw2-az2, usw2-az3, usw2-az4) in the US-WEST-2 Region. EC2 Instance Launches, AWS services that instantiated new instances, as well as services such as DataSync or AWS Backup which require new instances to support data transfers to or from the US-WEST-2 Region were affected. Our engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began investigating the root cause. We identified the issue to be caused by a subsystem that supports EBS Volumes required during instance launch. We began remediation of that issue at 3:20 PM, and completed full recovery at 4:21 PM. We recommend custo...
Read the full incident on the official AWS (Amazon Web Services) status page
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Earlier incidents with the same affected part or wording - useful to see how long this kind of problem usually takes.
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, resolved after 38 h 15 min
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Tokyo): [RESOLVED] Elevated API issues and Launch Failures
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, resolved after 24 h 2 min
Amazon API Gateway (Oregon): [RESOLVED] Increased invoke error rates
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