Outage in AWS

Increased Error Rates - UAE

Major

March 01, 2026 - Started about 4 hours ago

Incident Report

We are investigating issues with AWS services in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region.

Components affected

Amazon API Gateway Amazon Athena Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudWatch Amazon EC2 Amazon ECS Amazon Elastic File System Amazon EKS Amazon ELB Amazon EMR Amazon ElastiCache Amazon EventBridge Amazon FSx Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Amazon OpenSearch Service Amazon Redshift Amazon RDS Amazon SageMaker Amazon SNS Amazon SQS Amazon S3 Amazon WorkSpaces Auto Scaling AWS Amplify AWS Cloud Map AWS CloudHSM AWS CloudShell AWS CloudTrail AWS Database Migration Service AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery AWS Firewall Manager AWS Global Accelerator AWS Glue AWS IoT Core AWS IoT Device Defender AWS IoT Device Management AWS KMS AWS Lambda AWS Management Console AWS NAT Gateway AWS Network Firewall AWS Resource Groups Tagging API AWS Secrets Manager AWS Service Catalog AWS Site-to-Site VPN AWS Step Functions AWS Systems Manager AWS Transit Gateway AWS VPCE PrivateLink Multiple services Reachability Analyzer Amazon API Gateway (me-central-1) AWS Cloud WAN Amazon VPC IP Address Manager Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (me-central-1) AWS Network Firewall (me-central-1) AWS AppConfig AWS AppConfig (me-central-1) Amazon Athena (me-central-1) Auto Scaling (me-central-1) AWS Cloud Map (me-central-1) AWS CloudHSM (me-central-1) AWS CloudTrail (me-central-1) Amazon CloudWatch (me-central-1) AWS CloudShell (me-central-1) AWS Database Migration Service (me-central-1) Amazon EC2 (me-central-1) Amazon Elastic File System (me-central-1) Amazon ELB (me-central-1) Amazon EMR (me-central-1) Amazon EMR Serverless Amazon EMR Serverless (me-central-1) Amazon ElastiCache (me-central-1) Amazon ECS (me-central-1) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (me-central-1) Amazon EKS (me-central-1) Amazon EventBridge (me-central-1) Amazon EventBridge Scheduler Amazon EventBridge Scheduler (me-central-1) Amazon FSx (me-central-1) AWS Fargate AWS Fargate (me-central-1) AWS Firewall Manager (me-central-1) AWS Glue (me-central-1) AWS IoT Core (me-central-1) AWS IoT Device Defender (me-central-1) AWS IoT Device Management (me-central-1) AWS KMS (me-central-1) AWS Lambda (me-central-1) Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (me-central-1) Multiple services (me-central-1) AWS NAT Gateway (me-central-1) Amazon OpenSearch Service (me-central-1) Amazon RDS (me-central-1) Amazon Redshift (me-central-1) AWS Resource Groups Tagging API (me-central-1) Amazon S3 (me-central-1) Amazon SNS (me-central-1) Amazon SQS (me-central-1) AWS Systems Manager (me-central-1) Amazon SageMaker (me-central-1) AWS Secrets Manager (me-central-1) AWS Service Catalog (me-central-1) AWS Step Functions (me-central-1) AWS Transit Gateway (me-central-1) AWS VPCE PrivateLink (me-central-1) AWS Site-to-Site VPN (me-central-1) AWS Verified Access

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

UPDATE about 1 hour ago - at 03/01/2026 03:09PM

We wanted to provide some additional information on the isolated power issue. At this time, most AWS Services have weighted away from the affected Availability Zone (mec1-az2) and are seeing recovery for their affected operations and workflows. For EC2 Instances, EBS Volumes, and other resources that are impacted in the affected Zone, we will have a longer tail of recovery. At this time, power has not yet been restored to the affected AZ. For now, we recommend continuing to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery is required, we recommend customers restore from EBS Snapshots and/or replace affected resources by launching replacement resources in one of the unaffected zones, or an alternate region. As of this time, recovery is still several hours away. We will provide an update by 8:30 AM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

UPDATE about 2 hours ago - at 03/01/2026 02:09PM

We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2). EC2 Instances, DB Instances, EBS Volumes, and others resources are currently unavailable and will experience connectivity issues at this time. Other AWS Services are also experiencing error rates and latencies for some workflows. We have weighed away traffic for most services at this time. We recommend customers utilize one of the other Availability Zones in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region at this time, as existing instances in other AZ's remain unaffected by this issue. We are actively working to restore power and connectivity, at which time we will begin to work to recover affected resources. As of this time, we expect recovery is multiple hours away. We will provide an update by 7:15 AM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

UPDATE about 3 hours ago - at 03/01/2026 01:19PM

We are investigating connectivity and power issues affecting APIs and instances in a single Availability Zone (mec1-az2) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region due to a localized power issue. Existing instances in this zone will also be affected. Other AWS Services may also be experiencing increased errors and latencies for their workflows, and we are working to route requests away from this affected Availability Zone. We recommend customers make use of other Availability Zones at this time. Targeting new launches using RunInstances in the remaining AZs should succeed. Existing instances in the other AZs are not affected.

UPDATE about 4 hours ago - at 03/01/2026 12:51PM

We are investigating issues with AWS services in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region.

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