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⚪ Update: Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rate and Latency

⏰ May 09, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rate and Latency

// Status page says

Starting May 7 4:20 PM PDT, we experienced increased impaired EC2 instances and degraded EBS volumes in a single facility (data center) within a single Availability Zone (use1-az4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue was caused by a thermal event resulting in a loss of power. As part of our recovery effort, we shifted traffic away from the impacted Availability Zone for most services at May 7 5:06 PM. AWS services, like Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Kubernetes Service, ElastiCache, Redshift, O

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