Amazon S3 outage on May 4 — 19-minute disruption
May 4, 01:13 AM → May 4, 01:33 AM · 19 minutes · medium
On May 4, 2026, Amazon S3 experienced a service disruption. This incident, which was detected through user reports and third-party monitoring, lasted for approximately 19 minutes. The issue was resolved at 01:33 UTC.
Impact
The disruption to Amazon S3 was detected through user reports, with a peak of 8 reports observed within a 15-minute period. These reports indicated general service unavailability. No specific issue types or geographic regions were predominantly identified among the user reports received during the incident.
Outage timeline
- May 4, 01:13 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 4, 01:15 AM
Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 4, 01:33 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 01:13 AM
Amazon S3 status page acknowledged the incident.
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