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🔴 AWS decided to take the entire us-east-1 region offline without asking permission. Buildkite's engineers are now in that special state of alert where 'monitoring the situation' is corporate speak for 'refresh the status page and hope it fixes itself.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 21, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

AWS us-east-1 outage

// Status page says

Sep 21 , 23:47 UTC Monitoring - We're aware of a major AWS outage in us-east-1, we are taking action to prevent impact and monitoring the situation.

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

https://www.buildkitestatus.com/incidents/vr7dsq0p8pq0

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