AWS Regional Reliability Analysis 2025: Northern Virginia Outage Patterns and Service Impact
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Summary
An updated analysis of AWS regional reliability based on StatusGator outage data from 2025, focusing on whether the Northern Virginia (us-east-1) region remains the least reliable. The study examines outage patterns, affected AWS services, and includes detailed analysis of the major October 20, 2025 AWS incident. The data comes from continuous monitoring of official AWS status pages across all public AWS regions.
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· 5 pulledThis updated analysis is based on StatusGator outage data collected from January 1 to December 9, 2025.
We decided to review our AWS analysis of outages in 2022 due to several new AWS incidents, especially another widely discussed AWS outage in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) that occurred on October 20, 2025.
StatusGator continuously monitors the official AWS status pages and aggregates incidents across every public AWS Region.
We analyzed if AWS' N. Virginia region remains the least reliable in 2025.
Overview of outages, affected services, and the massive October 20 AWS incident, with insights from StatusGator's real-time monitoring.
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