Amazon

19 published postmortems tracked here, spanning Jul 2008 – Oct 2025.

Postmortems

Categories

Years covered

Products

Title	Date	Categories	Source
Amazon DynamoDB US-EAST-1 outage of October 2025 DynamoDB	2025-10-20	Automation Cloud	Original →
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams US-EAST-1 Degradation July 2024 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams	2024-07-30 – 2024-07-31	Cloud Config Change	Original →
AWS Lambda Service Event in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region on June 13th, 2023 AWS Lambda	2023-06-13	Cloud	Original →
AWS US-EAST-1 Internal Network Congestion on December 7, 2021	2021-12-07 – 2021-12-08	Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →
AWS Direct Connect disruption in Tokyo (AP-NORTHEAST-1) on September 2, 2021 AWS Direct Connect	2021-09-01 – 2021-09-02	Cloud	Original →
Amazon Kinesis US-EAST-1 outage November 2020 Amazon Kinesis	2020-11-25 – 2020-11-26	Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →
Amazon EC2 and EBS Issues in Tokyo (AP-NORTHEAST-1) on August 23, 2019 EC2, EBS	2019-08-23	Automation Cloud	Original →
Amazon EC2 DNS Resolution Issues in AP-NORTHEAST-2 EC2 DNS	2018-11-21 – 2018-11-22	Cloud	Original →
Amazon S3 US-EAST-1 outage of February 2017 Amazon S3	2017-02-28	Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →
AWS Sydney Region EC2 and EBS power disruption EC2, EBS	2016-06-05	Automation Cloud Config Change Hardware	Original →
AWS SA-EAST-1 Availability Zone Power and Network Incident, December 2013	2013-12-18	Automation Cloud Config Change Hardware	Original →
Amazon ELB Service Event in US-East Region on December 24, 2012 Elastic Load Balancing	2012-12-24 – 2012-12-25	Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →
AWS US-East Region Service Event of October 22, 2012 EBS	2012-10-22 – 2012-10-23	Automation Cloud Config Change Hardware	Original →
AWS US East-1 power failure and service disruption in June 2012	2012-06-30	Automation Cloud Config Change Hardware	Original →
Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in US East Region Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS	2011-04-21 – 2011-04-24	Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →
Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 Amazon S3	2008-07-20	Cloud	Original →
Amazon EC2, EBS, and RDS EU West Region Service Event EC2, EBS, RDS		Automation Cloud Config Change Hardware	Original →
Amazon SimpleDB US East Region Disruption on June 13 SimpleDB		Cloud	Original →
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption and Related Impacts in the US-East Region DynamoDB		Automation Cloud Config Change	Original →

Failure modes

Products

Amazon S3 2
DynamoDB 2
EC2, EBS 2
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS 1
Amazon Kinesis 1
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams 1

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