Elevated packet loss in EU-SOUTH-2

AWS Health Dashboard timeline. Affected services included Amazon EC2, VPC, ELB, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, Fargate, EFS, FSx, Redshift, SageMaker, Cognito, Step Functions and others in the EU-SOUTH-2 (Spain) Region.

Oct 04, 2026 16:14 UTC — We are investigating elevated packet loss in the EU-SOUTH-2 Region.

Oct 04, 2026 16:36 UTC — We are experiencing elevated packet loss with a single Availability Zone (eus2-az1) in the EU-SOUTH-2 Region. This issue is also resulting in elevated API latencies and error rates for other workflows and AWS Services. Engineers were automatically engaged and are working to identify the root cause and to mitigate the issue. We will provide you with another update by 10:15 AM PDT or sooner as new information becomes available.

Oct 04, 2026 17:06 UTC — Our efforts to mitigate the elevated packet loss with a single Availability Zone (eus2-az1) in the EU-SOUTH-2 Region is still underway. We are seeing some signs of improvement as a result of multiple parallel efforts. We continue to work to confirm root cause and fully mitigate the issue. While we currently do not have an estimate for how long our actions will take, we will keep you informed of our progress and provide you with another update by 11:00 AM PDT or sooner as new information becomes available.

Oct 04, 2026 17:56 UTC — We have identified the root cause and are currently focusing our mitigation efforts to drive full recovery. While we don’t have an exact estimate for how long our current efforts will take, we do expect to see incremental improvements as our efforts proceed. We will provide you with another update by 11:45 AM PDT, or sooner if new information becomes available.

Oct 04, 2026 18:45 UTC — We are seeing early signs of recovery. We will provide you with another update by 12:00 PM PDT.

Oct 04, 2026 18:56 UTC — Between 8:48 AM and 11:28 AM PDT, we experienced elevated packet loss within a single Availability Zone (eus2-az1) in the EU-SOUTH-2 Region. This issue resulted in elevated API latencies and error rates for multiple workflows and AWS Services. We were automatically alerted to the issue at 8:54 AM, and immediately began work to identify the root cause while taking multiple parallel paths to mitigate the issue. By 10:00 AM, our mitigation efforts had led to some improvements. By 10:38 AM, we identified the root cause as related to a networking configuration change that we were able to revert the change which led to full mitigation by 11:28 AM. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.