Promised uptime vs actual

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AWS Lambda SLA

AWS · Compute · promises up to 99.95% · SLA of May 5, 2022 · checked 47d ago

2 major outages in the last 365 days, each in one region (me-south-1 and me-central-1).

Worst region me-central-1: 72 h counted, 99.178% observed against the 99.95% Standard, which applies per region. 1 of 12 months fell below it (credits are claimed per month). 2 incidents ran past 72 hours; each counts for 72 hours at most (see the method).

Last 90 days: no major outage.

Incidents, last 365 days

Major outage time per month

Allowed per month: 22 min

Commitments and credits

99.95%
Standard
All Lambda functions per AWS region
Credit: below 99.95%: 10% · below 99%: 25% · below 95%: 100%

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Terms, exclusions and sources
Measured
Average of 5-minute Availability (share of requests not failing with 500/503) per AWS region
Credit cap
Up to 100% of Lambda charges in the affected region at the lowest tier; applied against future Lambda payments; issued only if over $1
Claim window
By the end of the second billing cycle after which the incident occurred
How to claim
Open a case in the AWS Support Center with 'SLA Credit Request' in the subject line and request logs
Not covered
Factors outside AWS's reasonable control; Voluntary customer actions (e.g. custom 500/503 codes, misconfigured VPC/security groups, disabled encryption keys); Not following Lambda User Guide best practices; Customer equipment, software or other technology; AWS suspension or termination of the right to use Lambda
Status history
Status history since Sep 23, 2025
AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Lambda available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each AWS region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.95% (the “Service Commitment”).
AWS, Last Updated: May 5, 2022. Read the SLA

Custom 500/503 status codes emitted by the customer's function code are not counted as Errors.

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