Outage report · Major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Mar 1, 2026

Region Availability

SeverityMajor outage
StartedMar 1, 2026, 12:51UTC
ResolvedSep 15, 2026, 10:27UTC
Duration197d 21h

What happened

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a major outage starting Mar 1, 2026, 12:51 UTC, affecting multipleservices, me-central-1. It was marked resolved at Sep 15, 2026, 10:27 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 197d 21h from first report to resolution.
  • It was the longest significant outage Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) Region. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone. We continue to work on recovering regional resources, as well as zonal resources hosted in the other affected Availability Zones (mec1-az1 and mec1-az3). Since the disruption began in March, most customers have been able to re-establish their operations in other Regions by restoring backups or copying data that remained accessible. AWS Support remains available to help customers who need assistance moving their applications to alternate Regions. We remain committed to supporting our customers in the UAE. We are working on replacing the affected infrastructure and will provide an update on the restoration of our services in the coming months. We have notified the relevant authorities and continue to work with them toward tha

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Amazon Web Services (AWS) started after this incident, so this report is based on Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s status page.

Other outages around the same time

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s overall reliability

61.8/100

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a reliability score of 61.8/100, with 99.43% effective uptime and 7 incidents over the last 90 days.

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