Update 6/14/2023 9:15 am ET: AWS said service was fully restored as of 6:37 pm ET on June 13. The original story follows below.
If you’re having issues with your Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, it’s not just you. An issue related to the provider’s AWS Lambda service is degrading service across the company’s US-East-1 Region in Northern Virginia.
AWS Service Health dashboard shows the issue began at around 3:08 pm ET on June 13, with increased error rates and latencies in its Northern Virginia region. About 10 minutes later, AWS identified its Lambda function as the source of the problem. As of 3:36 pm ET, AWS said it was continuing to experience increased error rates and latencies for “multiple services” in the US-East-1 region and was working to resolve these.
Lambda is AWS’ serverless computing platform, which launched in 2014. The dashboard showed that in addition to Lambda, AWS’ CloudFormation and Connect services were also experiencing degradations.
The issue appears to be impacting several major companies, including Delta Airlines, Capital One bank and McDonalds.
AWS’ Northern Virginia region launched in 2006 and includes 6 availability zones and 12 local zones. Availability Zones are comprised of one or more data centers. Local zones include compute and storage services which are deployed closer to end-users.
It is unclear how long it will take for service to be fully restored.
AWS previously had a major outage in December 2021 which impacted services across the globe and took down a number of popular consumer apps and services, including Netflix, Venmo and Disney+. It also had a major outage in November 2020 that impacted companies including Adobe, Roku and Tribune Publishing. Both of these outages were also in AWS’ US-East-1 Region.