Amazon Web Services incident

Service impact: Increased Error Rates

Amazon Web Services experienced a major incident on March 1, 2026 affecting Service impact: Increased Error Rates (global) and Service impact: Increased Error Rates — global and 1 more component, lasting 51d 4h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Mar 01, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 21, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration: 51d 4h
Detected by Pingoru: Mar 01, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC

Affected components

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

Update timeline

monitoring Mar 01, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC

We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2). EC2 Instances, DB Instances, EBS Volumes, and others resources are currently unavailable and will experience connectivity issues at this time. Other AWS Services are also experiencing error rates and latencies for some workflows. We have weighed away traffic for most services at this time. We recommend customers utilize one of the other Availability Zones in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region at this time, as existing instances in other AZ's remain unaffected by this issue. 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. We will provide an update by 7:15 AM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.