AWS records spike in failures in us-east-1 and other regions this Wednesday

Users report significant instability in Amazon Web Services (AWS) services this Wednesday, November 26, 2025. The Downdetector website recorded a significant increase in complaints from the early afternoon, with a peak around 6 pm (Brasília time). Most of the issues are concentrated in the us-east-1 region, located in Virginia (US).

The flaws mainly affect services such as EC2, S3 and DynamoDB. Relatos indicate access difficulties, slowness and complete interruptions in applications hosted in the Amazon cloud.

Most affected regions

us-east-1 accounts for 51% of notifications registered on Downdetector. The us-west-2 region appears with 26% of reports. us-east-2 accounts for 22% of complaints.

These three locations concentrate almost all of the instability reported to date.

Types of problems reported

Users describe loss of connection to EC2 instances. Muitos reports error when accessing S3 buckets. DynamoDB has read and write failures for several clients.

Complaints began to grow sharply after 5pm.

Impacted services

EC2 records outages on virtual machines across multiple Availability Zones. S3 storage is slow or completely unavailable on some accounts. Aplicações using Lambda also experience incomplete function execution.

Developers report difficulties deploying updates or maintaining systems in production.

Current State of AWS

The official AWS status dashboard still does not recognize widespread incident as of 8 p.m. Alguns services display green indicators despite massive user reports. The company usually updates the dashboard only when it confirms internal problems.

Amazon technicians work to identify the cause, according to previous patterns of similar incidents.

Repercussion among users

Developers share messages about down systems in real time. Jogos online servers hosted on AWS experience frequent disconnections during matches. Empresas small and medium-sized businesses report partial shutdown of digital operations.

The instability affects customers on Brasil, Estados Unidos, and Europa simultaneously.

Recent incident history

AWS faced similar issues in December 2021 in the same us-east-1 region. On Na occasion, the outage lasted several hours and affected sites such as Netflix and Disney+. Previous Incidentes also focused on Virginia due to high local demand.

The region remains the most used among the platform’s global customers.

Instability remains ongoing this Wednesday night. Usuários monitors Downdetector for real-time updates while awaiting Amazon Web Services’s official position on the origin and expected resolution of the problems.