Outage in Amazon AI

Increased Error Rates - UAE

Major

March 01, 2026 - Started about 3 hours ago

Incident Report

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

Components affected

Amazon AI Amazon API Gateway Amazon AI Amazon Athena Amazon AI Amazon CloudFront Amazon AI Amazon CloudWatch Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Container Service Amazon AI Amazon Elastic File System Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Amazon AI Amazon Elastic MapReduce Amazon AI Amazon ElastiCache Amazon AI Amazon EventBridge Amazon AI Amazon FSx Amazon AI Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Amazon AI Amazon OpenSearch Service Amazon AI Amazon Redshift Amazon AI Amazon Relational Database Service Amazon AI Amazon SageMaker Amazon AI Amazon Simple Notification Service Amazon AI Amazon Simple Queue Service Amazon AI Amazon Simple Storage Service Amazon AI Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon AI Auto Scaling Amazon AI AWS Amplify Amazon AI AWS Cloud Map Amazon AI AWS CloudHSM Amazon AI AWS CloudShell Amazon AI AWS CloudTrail Amazon AI AWS Database Migration Service Amazon AI AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Amazon AI AWS Firewall Manager Amazon AI AWS Global Accelerator Amazon AI AWS Glue Amazon AI AWS IoT Core Amazon AI AWS IoT Device Defender Amazon AI AWS IoT Device Management Amazon AI AWS Key Management Service Amazon AI AWS Lambda Amazon AI AWS Management Console Amazon AI AWS NAT Gateway Amazon AI AWS Network Firewall Amazon AI AWS Resource Groups Tagging API Amazon AI AWS Secrets Manager Amazon AI AWS Service Catalog Amazon AI AWS Site-to-Site VPN Amazon AI AWS Step Functions Amazon AI AWS Systems Manager Amazon AI AWS Transit Gateway Amazon AI AWS VPCE PrivateLink Amazon AI Multiple services Amazon AI Reachability Analyzer Amazon AI Amazon API Gateway (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Cloud WAN Amazon AI Amazon VPC IP Address Manager Amazon AI Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Network Firewall (UAE) Amazon AI AWS AppConfig Amazon AI AWS AppConfig (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Athena (UAE) Amazon AI Auto Scaling (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Cloud Map (UAE) Amazon AI AWS CloudHSM (UAE) Amazon AI AWS CloudTrail (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon CloudWatch (UAE) Amazon AI AWS CloudShell (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Database Migration Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic File System (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic MapReduce (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon EMR Serverless Amazon AI Amazon EMR Serverless (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon ElastiCache (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Container Service (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon EventBridge (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon EventBridge Scheduler Amazon AI Amazon EventBridge Scheduler (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon FSx (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Fargate Amazon AI AWS Fargate (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Firewall Manager (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Glue (UAE) Amazon AI AWS IoT Core (UAE) Amazon AI AWS IoT Device Defender (UAE) Amazon AI AWS IoT Device Management (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Key Management Service (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Lambda (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (UAE) Amazon AI Multiple services (UAE) Amazon AI AWS NAT Gateway (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon OpenSearch Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Relational Database Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Redshift (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Resource Groups Tagging API (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Simple Storage Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Simple Notification Service (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon Simple Queue Service (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Systems Manager (UAE) Amazon AI Amazon SageMaker (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Secrets Manager (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Service Catalog (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Step Functions (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Transit Gateway (UAE) Amazon AI AWS VPCE PrivateLink (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Site-to-Site VPN (UAE) Amazon AI AWS Verified Access

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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