New Multi-region uptime checks and custom-domain status pages
AWS

Service impact: Increased Error Rates

Degraded Impact Investigating Ongoing August 19, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Investigating

Incident Timeline

Investigating
On August 18 we launched a new Availability Zone (euw2-az4) in the EU-WEST-2 Region. After the launch, we began experiencing errors launching EC2 instances in the new Availability Zone when a default subnet is not present. We can confirm that existing running instances and resources are not affected. Workflows that automatically get a list of Availability Zones in the Region via the DescribeAvailabilityZones API and then attempt to launch new instances or create resources in the new Availabil...
Aug 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM UTC
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