Is Amazon Route 53 down?
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100% uptime · 0 incidentsWhat Amazon Route 53 does - and how it fails
Amazon Route 53 is AWS’s DNS service, with a 100% availability SLA on the data plane - the strongest commitment in AWS. Even so, control-plane incidents (changes not propagating) and resolver issues do happen, and DNS problems masquerade as outages of everything else.
- Control-plane delays: record changes and health-check edits not propagating
- Resolver latency affecting lookups from inside VPCs
- Health-check false positives triggering unintended failovers
- Customer-side TTL and negative-caching surprises during incident recovery
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Is Route 53 down right now?
The live status above reflects our latest check. Because Route 53’s data plane targets 100% availability, most “DNS is down” reports trace to control-plane delays, resolver latency, or caching artifacts.
What does Route 53’s 100% SLA actually mean?
The 100% commitment covers the authoritative DNS data plane answering queries. If it fails to, credits scale up to 100% of the month’s Route 53 charges - but the control plane (making changes) is not covered by the same target.
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