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 11h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Mar 02, 2026, 06:46 AM UTC
Resolved: Apr 21, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration: 50d 11h
Detected by Pingoru: Mar 02, 2026, 06:46 AM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

monitoring Mar 02, 2026, 06:46 AM UTC

We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected another Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az3). Customers are also experiencing increased EC2 APIs and instance launch errors for the remaining zone (mec1-az1). At this point it is not possible to launch new instances in the region, although existing instances should not be affected in mec1-az1. Other AWS Services, such as DynamoDB and S3 are also experiencing significant error rates and latencies. 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. For customers that can, we recommend failing away to another AWS Region at this time. We will provide an update by 12:00 AM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.