Ask HN: Is AWS Down Again?
26 comments
·October 27, 2025tdubey
snarkyturtle
What's updog?
amelius
Isn't that a kind of yoga pose?
trelliscoded
I admit, I laughed. Hey snarkyturtle, please reply to this when you get the joke, I want to see how long it takes
whooooosh
Hey trelliscoded, please reply to this when you get that he was referencing the joke from the beginning, I want to see how long it takes
nodesocket
This is cool, does this actually hit all the services directly (in each region) instead of pulling from AWS Status?
port3000
https://updog.ai/status/openai issue history looks terrible. Wonder how you ping openAI for this; with a completion attempt on a particular model?
dewey
Which uptime checker tool would be based on status pages (owned by the marketing department)? That defeats the whole purpose.
rozenmd
I've run a business in this space since 2021, I am yet to meet a business that lets their marketing team own their status page.
You'll find most engineering teams will start owning a status page to centralise updates to their stakeholders, before eventually growing into the customer success/support org owning it to minimise support tickets during incidents.
Marketing has nothing to do with status pages.
kylecazar
I highly doubt AWS health dashboards are owned by marketing
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nodesocket
you'd be surprised...
NoSalt
I was thinking the same thing as some sites like Google were taking a LONG time to load.
Johnny555
Google probably isn't using AWS for any of their infrastructure.
myidealab
I think it may be down, showing early signs based on location services (geofencing) warning.
matt-p
It's wonky for sure, but only to certain IP ranges.
danudey
I'm currently in the process of spinning up a k8s in us-west-2 and no issues, but, as others have said, us-east-1 is the problem child so I guess we'll see.
paulddraper
Down detector is much much higher when there is a real problem.
There might be something, but wouldn’t be widespread.
Johnny555
Most of the reports on the downdetector heatmap are coming from the NYC area, that's probably more likely to be a network issue (or even, if you can imagine it, DNS) than a real AWS failure.
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/map/
nodesocket
Don't see any issues in us-east-2 (Ohio) with my infra, but typically issues arise in us-east-1.
banjwoorri
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There's nothing on health.aws.amazon.com but I'm getting reports of performance failure on systems that utilize AWS...
Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/