Is AWS down?
No. AWS is working.
We load S3's endpoint and the AWS security token host. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt just now.
Last 24 hours · no failures
What AWS says
AWS's status page has nothing from the last 6 hours; their latest post was "Service disruption: Increased Error Rates" on 2026-09-15, read 7 days ago. Their page Ours is above, from trying the real thing.
Last 90 days
working 100% of the time since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days) (0 incidents)
No incident has been recorded yet.
Is it just my store?
If AWS is working and your store still can't check out, the fault is in your setup. Bilby will walk your store now and show you the screen. Free.
Check my storeHow we check
Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load S3's endpoint and the AWS security token host. Not a ping. Not their status page.
Normally 1.6 s from Sydney, 544 ms from Frankfurt, 470 ms from Virginia — the slowest step we run, measured since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days).
How we check, in full — the method, the rule and our own four canaries
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<a href="https://navaal.ai/status/aws"><img src="https://navaal.ai/status/aws/badge.svg" alt="AWS status" height="22"></a>Questions
- Is AWS down right now?
- No. AWS is working. We load S3's endpoint and the AWS security token host. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt just now.
- How do you know AWS is down?
- Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load S3's endpoint and the AWS security token host. Not a ping. Not their status page.
- AWS is up but my store isn't. What now?
- Then the fault is in your setup — your theme, an app or your domain. Bilby will walk your store, try to buy something, and show you the screen where it stopped. It's free.