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 50d 4h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Mar 02, 2026, 02:22 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 are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators. EC2, Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS Services continue to experience significant error rates and elevated latencies. We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe. Further, we strongly advise customers to update their applications to ingest S3 data to an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 11:00 AM PST on March 2, or sooner if we have additional information to share.