Is Northern Virginia Still the Least Reliable AWS Region?

Summary

This 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. We’ve expanded the report with fresh 2025 regional data as well as a new breakdown of affected AWS services. The Data Behind the Study StatusGator continuously monitors the official AWS status pages and aggregates incidents across every public AWS Region. This analysis reflects: Major, publicly acknowledged AWS outages All commercial AWS regions (GovCloud excluded) Data timeframe: January 1, 2025 – December 9, 2025 AWS Outage Ranking by Region So let’s take a look at the number of outages, duration, and components affected. RegionNumber of outagesDurationComponents Affected Regionless1231:55:1914 Canada-Central13:49:5719 Hyderabad10:44:5946 Ireland10:44:5110 N. Virginia1033:49:33126 Ohio21:20:452 Oregon32:59:413 Osaka12:15:0111 Sao Paulo10:44:519 Singapore10:54:591 Stockholm211:54:4981 Sydney10:50:001 Tokyo31:24:5118 Zurich14:54:557 Key Findings N. Virginia (us-east-1) is once again the least reliable AWS Region. It leads the dataset in: Total number of outages (10) Total downtime (33 hours, 49 minutes) Total components affected (126) No other region even comes close. Stockholm ranks second in downtime (11+ hours). Despite only 2 outages, each incident had a massive regional impact. Regionless outages were unusually high. This category recorded 12 outages and 32 hours of downtime, indicating: More widespread AWS service disruptions in 2025 More failures affecting multiple regions simultaneously AWS Services with the Most Outages AWS doesn’t just experience regional outages. Service-level incidents are just as impactful.We analyzed the most frequently disrupted AWS services in 2025, ranked by the number of outages. ServiceNumber of OutagesDuration Amazon EC21419:14:01 ...