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By The Downtime · Jul 16, 2026 · 9:47 AM ·Updated 1 month ago

Amazon Web Services is investigating increased 5xx errors affecting CloudFront customers who use VPC Origins connectivity. The issue began at 12:45 AM PDT. AWS has confirmed that customers using other origin types are not impacted.

CloudFront is Amazon's global content delivery network used by enterprises and developers to distribute content at scale.

Engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue. AWS has offered a temporary workaround: customers without a requirement for VPC Origins can switch to an alternative origin type to resolve the errors. The company committed to providing an update by 3:15 AM PDT or sooner if additional information becomes available.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will update as new information is released.

⚠️ Issues being tracked (2)

Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors
Resolved
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Multiple services — [RESOLVED] Elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zone (Frankfurt)
Resolved · 🇪🇺 Europe
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🕒 Live updates (16)

resolved Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 12:21 PM

Between 12:45 AM and 4:18 AM PDT, we experienced increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Our engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began investigating the root cause. By 2:57 AM PDT, we identified the root cause of the issue as an internal constraint on the fleet that manages connections to private VPC origins. When this constraint was reached, the system responsible for distributing routing configuration to our network processors failed to load the updated configuration data correctly, affecting routing of VPC Origin connections. At 3:52 AM PDT, we took multiple mitigation actions that led to to full recovery at 4:18 AM PDT. Now that the issue has been mitigated, customers who temporarily changed their origin type can safely revert these changes. Customers utilizing other origin types were not affected by this issue. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 11:57 AM

We continue to see significant signs of recovery as a result of our mitigation efforts, with full recovery expected within the next 45 minutes.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 11:57 AM

We continue to see significant signs of recovery as a result of our mitigation efforts, with full recovery expected within the next 45 minutes.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 11:27 AM

We are seeing initial signs of recovery and continue to work toward full recovery.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 11:27 AM

We are seeing initial signs of recovery and continue to work toward full recovery.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 11:16 AM

We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. We have further scoped the issue down to routing table capacity within the packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We have identified and are currently testing a mitigation strategy to resolve the issue. Once testing is complete, we will deploy the mitigation in a phased approach. Based on the results from these tests, we will provide a clearer estimated time for resolution in our next update. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 5:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 11:16 AM

We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. We have further scoped the issue down to routing table capacity within the packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We have identified and are currently testing a mitigation strategy to resolve the issue. Once testing is complete, we will deploy the mitigation in a phased approach. Based on the results from these tests, we will provide a clearer estimated time for resolution in our next update. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 5:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 10:18 AM

We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. Based on our investigation, we believe the root cause is related to a packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 4:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 10:18 AM

We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. Based on our investigation, we believe the root cause is related to a packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 4:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 9:21 AM

Starting at 12:45 AM PDT, we are experiencing increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. We have confirmed that customers utilizing other origin types are not impacted by this issue. Our engineers are engaged and are actively working to mitigate impact. As a workaround, customers who do not require VPC Origins can change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 3:15 AM PDT, or sooner if more information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 9:21 AM

Starting at 12:45 AM PDT, we are experiencing increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. We have confirmed that customers utilizing other origin types are not impacted by this issue. Our engineers are engaged and are actively working to mitigate impact. As a workaround, customers who do not require VPC Origins can change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 3:15 AM PDT, or sooner if more information becomes available.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — Increased 5xx Errors Jul 16, 8:44 AM

We are investigating increased 5xx errors for Cloudfront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity.

investigating Amazon CloudFront — [RESOLVED] Increased... Jul 16, 8:44 AM

We are investigating increased 5xx errors for Cloudfront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity.

resolved Multiple services — [RESOLVED] Elevated... Jul 16, 1:24 AM

Between 2:56 PM and 6:07 PM PDT, we experienced connectivity issues to a subset of EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (euc1-az2) in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. During this time, customers may also have experienced increased error rates and latencies for new instance launches in the affected zone, along with some AWS APIs that use the affected EC2 instances. Some AWS Services also experienced connectivity issues and increased error rates within the affected zone. Engineers were automatically engaged and immediately began investigating. As part of our recovery effort, we shifted traffic away from the impacted Availability Zone for affected services at 3:04 PM. At 3:05 PM we identified the root cause to be a recent networking change causing the impact. Engineers immediately began reverting this change which completed at 4:28 PM. This resulted in restoration of network connectivity to the affected zone at 4:30 PM. We continued to work until we fully recovered the impacts at 6:07 PM. We do not expect this issue to reoccur. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

investigating Multiple services — [RESOLVED] Elevated... Jul 15, 11:36 PM

We are seeing early signs of recovery and continue to work toward full resolution. We will continue to provide updates.

investigating Multiple services — [RESOLVED] Elevated... Jul 15, 11:11 PM

We are investigating elevated connectivity issues with a single Avalability zone (euc1-az2) in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region.

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