Amazon Web Services incident

Service disruption: Increased Error Rates

Amazon Web Services experienced a major incident on March 2, 2026 affecting Service disruption: Increased Error Rates (global) and Service disruption: Increased Error Rates — global and 1 more component, lasting 49d 21h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Mar 02, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 21, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration: 49d 21h
Detected by Pingoru: Mar 02, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC

Affected components

Service disruption: Increased Error Rates (global)Service disruption: Increased Error Rates — globalAWS Status

Update timeline

monitoring Mar 02, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC

We continue to work towards recovery of the two impaired Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. We have partially restored access to the AWS Management Console, however, some pages will continue to load unsuccessfully until we have recovered core services and power. In parallel to the power and recovery efforts, we are working to restore access to tools and utilities to allow customers to backup and migrate their data. We have no updated guidance on expected recovery times, and still expect this to take at least a day to fully restore power and connectivity. We continue advising customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions. We will provide you with another update by 6:00 PM PST, or sooner if new information becomes available.