# AWS: Elevated Launch Failures (Oregon)

> AWS reports elevated launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region. The failures affect all Availability Zones and services that depend on EBS or EC2, including CodeBuild, RDS, and DataSync. AWS identified the issue in a subsystem that supports EBS volumes during instance launch and reports early signs of recovery. AWS recommends that customers do not mutate running instances that would create or replace an EC2 instance in the Region.

- Provider: [AWS](https://outages.live/aws.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: active
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-11-06 22:51 UTC
- Components: Amazon MQ, Amazon Relational Database Service, AWS DataSync, Amazon GameLift Servers, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Fargate, AWS Parallel Computing Service, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS Glue, AWS Device Farm, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, VM Import/Export, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Elemental, AWS HealthImaging, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, AWS CloudShell, Amazon EventBridge, AWS HealthOmics, AWS Step Functions, AWS Batch, Amazon GameLift Streams, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon EMR Serverless, AWS Backup
- Official update: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

## Updates from AWS

### active, 2026-11-07 00:09 UTC

We can confirm EC2 instance launch failures affecting all AZs (usw2-az1, usw2-az2, usw2-az3, usw2-az4) in the US-WEST-2 Region. We have identified the issue to be caused by a subsystem that supports EBS Volumes required during instance launch. Services that instantiate new instances, such as cross-region data copy for DataSync, within the US-WEST-2 Region as either the source or destination are also affected. We recommend that customers do not mutate running instances at this time that would result in the replacement or creation of a new EC2 instance in the Region. Running EC2 instances and already created EBS volumes continue to operate as normal. We are seeing early signs of recovery, and continue to take steps to restore launches within the Region. We will update this post by 5:30 PM PST or earlier if we have new information to share.

### active, 2026-11-06 23:21 UTC

We are experiencing elevated launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region caused by an issue with the EBS service. Services that depend on EBS or EC2 will experience failure rates of their own. We are working to mitigate the issues. We will provide you with another update by 4:00 PM PST or sooner if new information becomes available.

### active, 2026-11-06 23:00 UTC

We are experiencing elevated launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region.

### active, 2026-11-06 22:54 UTC

We are experiencing elevated launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region