# Firebolt: Amazon Elastic Compute outage

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2021-12-22 12:41 UTC · Resolved: 2021-12-22 20:17 UTC · Duration: 7.6 h
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: API, Firebolt Components - API, Firebolt Components - Web Application, Web Application, Engines, Firebolt Components - Engines, AWS - EC2, EC2
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/5rbjtpsrmmv8](https://stspg.io/5rbjtpsrmmv8)
- [Company: Firebolt](https://rewindex.com/company/firebolt.md)

## Summary

Firebolt reported a major Amazon Elastic Compute outage affecting AWS EC2 instances, with API, Engines and Web Application listed as affected components. It started at 2021-12-22 12:41 UTC and was resolved at 2021-12-22 20:17 UTC, lasting 7 h 35 min. Firebolt said AWS identified the issue and a fix was in progress before resolution. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2021-12-22 12:41 UTC: We are experiencing an issue with AWS EC2 instances.
- **monitoring** 2021-12-22 14:13 UTC: The issue has been identified by AWS and a fix is in progress. Waiting for a full recovery.
- **resolved** 2021-12-22 20:17 UTC: The incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2021-12-22 12:41 UTC: [Major incident: Amazon Elastic Compute outage](https://rewindex.com/change/i0516d46053b434.md)


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