At 3:36 PM PDT on October 28 (10:36PM UTC), the cloud colossus advised customers that “Earlier today some EC2 launches within the use1-az2 Availability Zone (AZ) experienced increased latencies for EC2 instance launches.”
Amazon throttled some requests for EC2 resources, but said retrying a request should resolve the issue.
Another impact of the incident created “task launch failure rates for [Elastic Container Service] ECS tasks for both EC2 and Fargate for a subset of customers in the US-EAST-1 Region.”
Amazon’s status page advises that ECS operates cells in the US-EAST-1 Region “and a small number of these cells are currently experiencing elevated error rates launching new tasks and existing tasks may stop unexpectedly.” The cloudy concern also warned that customers “may also see their container instances disconnect from ECS which can cause tasks to stop in some circumstances” but advised it had identified the problem and was working to fix it.
The incident also impacted EMR Serverless services – the elastic map reduce service Amazon offers to run big data tools like Hadoop and Spark.
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🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: MICROSOFT AZURE OUTAGE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 29, 2025
A massive Microsoft Azure outage has taken down key systems worldwide, including Alaska Airlines, which says its websites and online check-in are offline.
The airline confirmed it’s working with Microsoft to restore services “as quickly as… https://t.co/v1GPXd7vHT pic.twitter.com/u8luNUmBKL
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A massive Microsoft Azure outage has taken down key systems worldwide, including Alaska Airlines, which says its websites and online check-in are offline.
The airline confirmed it’s working with Microsoft to restore services “as quickly as possible” and urged passengers to see airport agents for boarding passes and expect delays.
Reports suggest both Azure and AWS are down, impacting more than half the internet’s infrastructure, a rare simultaneous failure that’s already grounding flights and freezing major platforms.
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