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👋 Hey! My name is Wojciech Gawroński, but others call me AWS Maniac.

My goal is to safely guide you through the cloudy and foggy space of the AWS portfolio.

The Complete History of AWS Outages

1 min read, last updated on 2021-12-20

Introduction

How many major outages AWS had in the past? 🤔

Such a question hit me in 2017 when Amazon S3 had one of the worst outages in cloud history.

So I decided to prepare content about that. The idea appeared in 2017, and yet, we need to have another big one in us-east-1 again, more than 3 years later, to force me to dust off the topic. So I have refurbished the notes I have prepared back then and prepared a timeline.

It turned out it was an exciting journey, and I am sharing those results with you down below. I am doing that hoping that it won’t jinx anything. 🙈 Let’s go then!

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Timeline

Summary

My goal was to collect all the most critical outages of AWS cloud that happened over the years. However, did I collect every single one? I doubt it, so I encourage you in the comments to remind me which one I have missed! 🎯

Also, I would love to hear horror stories that were the most painful for you personally - I intuitively feel that those most recent, related to Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams will be at the top. But who knows? Maybe I am wrong? Share yours in the comments below.

UPDATE (20.12.2021): I have added the most recent outage that happened in us-west-1 and us-west-2 on 15th of December, and I hope it concludes all outages that we had this year. 😅 I am looking forward to outage-free 2022!

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