# CircleCI: AWS EC2 incident affecting CircleCI

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2021-12-22 13:00 UTC · Resolved: 2021-12-22 14:22 UTC · Duration: 1.4 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.circleci.com/incidents/7lxt37skvtdd](https://status.circleci.com/incidents/7lxt37skvtdd)
- [Company: CircleCI](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [AWS us-east-1 outage, Dec 22, 2021: 40 vendors, 40 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2021-12-22-aws-us-east-1)
- This incident blames AWS as the cause. (hop 1, posted +18 min vs the first vendor naming AWS)
- Evidence: “…AWS EC2 incident affecting CircleCI This incident has been resolved.…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["AWS us-east-1<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>8 vendors, 6 blamed AWS<br/>Firebolt, Bitbucket, HubSpot, CircleCI +4"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor<br/>Confluent"]:::names
  root --> h4
  me["CircleCI (this incident)<br/>posted +18 min"]:::me
  h1 --- me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2021-12-22 14:22 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/7lxt37skvtdd · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/circleci/incidents/7lxt37skvtdd.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/circleci/incidents/7lxt37skvtdd · Generated 2026-10-20T00:03:16.714Z