Amazon Web Services incident

Service disruption: Increased Error Rates

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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 9h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 02, 2026, 08:52 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 21, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration
50d 9h
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 02, 2026, 08:52 AM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Mar 02, 2026, 08:52 AM UTC

    We continue to work on a localized power issue affecting multiple Availability Zones in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3). Customers are experiencing increased EC2 API errors and instance launch failures across the region, and it is not currently possible to launch new instances; existing instances in mec1-az1 should not be affected. Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 are also experiencing significant error rates and elevated latencies. We are actively working to restore power and connectivity, after which we will begin recovery of affected resources; full recovery is still expected to be many hours away. We recommend that affected customers failover, and backup any critical data, to another AWS Region. We will provide an update by 2:00 AM PST, or sooner if the situation changes.