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⏰ Feb 25, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Intermittent missing or delayed EC2 instance and status check metrics

// Status page says

Between 7:00 AM and 12:05 PM PST, we experienced errors while publishing EC2 instance metrics and status checks in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue resulted in metrics and status checks to be delayed or report INSUFFICIENT_DATA. EC2 APIs and instances were unaffected by this issue and continue to operate normally. We were automatically engaged at 7:05 AM and began identifying multiple parallel paths to mitigate the issue. By 7:20 AM, we identified that the issue was related to an underlying sub

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

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

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