[Increased Packet loss] Service impact: Increased Packet loss

We are actively engaged with our co-location partner to restore connectivity at Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, DEU. Since our last update, we have made incremental progress to restore safe access to the affected area at the Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, DEU. In parallel, we have prioritized the order in which critical and high-priority racks will be restored, as part of the mitigation efforts. Based on our current assessment, full recovery is not expected in the near term and may extend beyond today. AWS Direct Connect connections at this location remain impaired. Customers with connections exclusively at this location will continue to experience packet loss. Customers with multi-site or redundant configurations across other Direct Connect locations remain unaffected. For a workaround, impacted customers who have the option available to failover to VPN are recommended to do so. For customers using Direct Connect gateway and Transit Gateway, we recommend creating a AWS Site-to-Site VPN and attaching it to your Transit Gateway, refer to steps here. For other customers we recommend establishing an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a temporary backup path, refer to steps here. We continue to closely track progress and will share an update by August 16 3:30 AM PDT, or sooner as new information becomes available.