# AWS: Increased Connectivity issues in US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia)

> Connectivity issues affect US-EAST-1 in N. Virginia. The affected components include Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Connect, Kiro, AWS NAT Gateway, AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS IoT Device Management, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS Sign Up. AWS continues to investigate. AWS reports early signs of recovery for authentication via IAM Identity Center and SignUp.

- Provider: [AWS](https://outages.live/aws.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: active
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-11-15 12:38 UTC
- Components: Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Step Functions, AWS NAT Gateway, Amazon VPC Lattice, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
- Official update: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

## Updates from AWS

### active, 2026-11-15 13:30 UTC

We are seeing early signs of recovery for authentication via IAM Identity Center and SignUp.

### active, 2026-11-15 13:24 UTC

We are seeing early signs of recovery for authentication via SSO and SignUp.

### active, 2026-11-15 13:21 UTC

We continue to investigate Connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. IAM Identity center sign-in requests and AWS SignUp are impacted at this time. We can confirm errors when attempted to authenticate when using identity center or when using services that rely on IAM Identity center. For Kiro users, logins from social sign in methods are not impacted at this time. There are no workarounds for impacted customers.

### active, 2026-11-15 13:18 UTC

We continue to investigate Connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. IAM Identity center sign-in requests and AWS SignUps are impacted at this time. We can confirm errors when attempted to authenticate when using identity center or when using services that rely on IAM Identity center. For Kiro users, logins from social sign in methods are not impacted at this time. There are no workarounds for impacted customers.

### active, 2026-11-15 12:45 UTC

We are investigating reports of Connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. IAM Identity center sign-in requests and AWS SignUps are also impacted at this time.

### active, 2026-11-15 12:39 UTC

We are investigating Connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. IAM Identity center sign-in requests and AWS SignUps are also impacted at this time.