Experiencing 500 Errors with DynamoDB in ap-southeast-2?

December 8, 2025 5 answers
Asked by CuriousMind23
Over the past couple of hours, I've been hit with a lot of 500 error responses (UnknownError) and there's also been an increase in throttling from DynamoDB. This issue is happening across various tables and accounts. Is anyone else facing this? I checked the health dashboard and didn't find any known issues, plus the table metrics aren't showing any read or write errors.

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LostInLogs
I see a lot of people reporting issues across different regions, not just ours. Service degradation started around 2AM UTC and it seems to be widespread.
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DynamoPal
No specific issues reported for me today, but I'm running a scan on my whole table which might be hitting the limits, hence the capacity issues. Just keeping my fingers crossed itโ€™s not an AWS problem!
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StackedErrors
I can confirm Iโ€™m seeing similar issues in ap-southeast-2. Definitely feels like thereโ€™s something off with the service right now.

SnoopyDev: Same here! It really seems like common issues across regions.

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TechieTina
Iโ€™m in the same boat. Weโ€™re encountering '500 internal server error' messages with this error code: { "__type": "com.amazon.coral.service#ServiceUnavailableException", "Message": "Request Expired" }.
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CloudWatcher99
Yeah, our account rep confirmed that there are issues with DynamoDB. It's affecting many of our services that rely on it.
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