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⚪ 🎭 AWS's Launch Template API decided to take an unscheduled sabbatical between 2:56-6:54 AM PDT, turning template creation into a coin flip. Running instances shrugged and kept chugging, but anyone trying to spawn new resources got the silent treatment. Even services downstream realized their templates weren't coming home for dinner.

⏰ Jul 06, 2026 FYI spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Increased Launch Template API Error Rates

// Status page says

Between 2:56 AM and 6:54 AM PDT, we experienced increased error rates when calling EC2 Launch Template APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. During this time, affected customers may have experienced errors when creating, modifying, or decribing Launch Templates. Other AWS services that rely on Launch Templates were also impacted. Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EKS workloads already running on provisioned nodes continued to operate normally. Cluster modification operations, and Managed Node Group creati

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

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