Amazon EC2 outage on May 3 — 19-minute disruption
May 3, 07:13 AM → May 3, 07:33 AM · 19 minutes · medium
An incident affecting Amazon EC2 was detected on May 3, 2026, starting at approximately 07:13 UTC. This disruption was initially identified through user reports and subsequently correlated with official vendor signals. The service returned to normal operation by approximately 07:33 UTC on the same day.
Impact
During the 19-minute incident, users reported experiencing issues with Amazon EC2 services. Our monitoring observed a peak of 8 user reports within a 15-minute period. While specific issue types or geographical regions were not broadly identified, these reports indicated a disruption to service availability for some users.
Outage timeline
- May 3, 07:13 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 3, 07:15 AM
Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 3, 07:33 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 3, 07:13 AM
Amazon EC2 status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - May 3, 07:33 AM
AI confidence: Medium confidence (0.82) based on rolling baseline detection correlated with official/vendor signals. AI review: likely_real Impact forecast: Potential disruption to services relying on Amazon EC2.
- May 3, 07:33 AM
Root cause: Vendor-side issue causing website unavailability for Amazon EC2.
