Amazon Web Services incident

Service degradation: Increased Error Rates

Amazon Web Services experienced a major incident on March 1, 2026 affecting Service degradation: Increased Error Rates (global) and Service degradation: Increased Error Rates — global and 1 more component, lasting 51d 3h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Mar 01, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 21, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration: 51d 3h
Detected by Pingoru: Mar 01, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

monitoring Mar 01, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

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.