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Is Amazon Route 53 down?

DegradedLast checked Oct 13, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

Last 90 days

100% uptime · 0 incidents
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What 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

Amazon Route 53 questions

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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