# Red Hat (incl. Quay.io): Cascading failures for ROSA and OSD services that depend on Quay and AWS

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-10-20 08:45 UTC · Resolved: 2025-10-20 22:29 UTC · Duration: 14 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.redhat.com/incidents/mk90qgxck4dt](https://status.redhat.com/incidents/mk90qgxck4dt)
- [Company: Red Hat (incl. Quay.io)](https://rewindex.com/company/red-hat.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [AWS us-east-1 outage, Oct 20, 2025: 141 vendors, 181 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2025-10-20-aws-us-east-1)
- This incident blames AWS as the cause. (hop 1, posted +1 h 34 min vs AWS’s own post)
- Evidence: “…Cascading failures for ROSA and OSD services that depend on Quay and AWS Per AWS's most recent update at 2:48 PM PDT, EC2 instance creation is no longer being throttled, and has returned to normal pre…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["AWS us-east-1<br/>posted 07:11 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before AWS did<br/>5 vendors, 4 blamed AWS<br/>Salesforce, Descope, Ashby +2"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>18 vendors, 17 blamed AWS<br/>Asana, Firebolt, Monday.com +15"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>30 vendors, 29 blamed AWS<br/>SingleStore, Loops, Buildkite +27"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>45 vendors, 44 blamed AWS<br/>RudderStack, Airbyte, Unbounce +42"]:::blames
  root --> later
  p0["Twilio<br/>posted +15 min"]:::blames
  root --> p0
  k0["BigCommerce<br/>+2 h 46 min"]:::hop2
  p0 -->|"blamed Twilio"| k0
  p1["Webflow<br/>posted +4 h 37 min, did not name AWS"]:::timing
  root -.-> p1
  k1["Rootly<br/>+10 h 23 min"]:::hop2
  p1 -->|"blamed Webflow"| k1
  p2["Baseten<br/>posted +4 min"]:::blames
  root --> p2
  k2["Zed<br/>+26 h 20 min"]:::hop2
  p2 -->|"blamed Baseten"| k2
  me["Red Hat (incl. Quay.io) (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h 34 min"]:::me
  h4 --- 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** 2025-10-20 22:29 UTC: Per AWS's most recent update at 2:48 PM PDT, EC2 instance creation is no longer being throttled, and has returned to normal pre-incident levels. We have seen recovery of clusters affected by this outage, and are resolving this incident. If you are experiencing any issues, please reach out to Support.

_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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