AWS Outage: me-central

Update timeline

1. identified Mar 01, 2026, 02:02 PM UTC

   ROSA clusters degraded in me-central AWS Status Page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

2. identified Mar 01, 2026, 02:26 PM UTC

   An Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2) has been impacted by a power outage. Customers are advised to schedule their workloads into another availability zone.

3. identified Mar 02, 2026, 01:37 PM UTC

   Availability Zones in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2, mec1-az3) have been impacted by a power outage. Customers are advised to schedule their workloads into another availability zone.

4. identified Mar 02, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC

   ROSA clusters deployed in me-central-1 are degraded due to availability zone outages. We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe. Please refer to AWS Health for more information and recommendations on workload relocation.

5. identified Mar 03, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC

   The outage is still ongoing on AWS side. The AWS Management Console is now operational, and AWS is recommending to retry operations where possible, although most of the underlying service are still offline.

6. identified Mar 04, 2026, 04:55 AM UTC

   AWS continues to make progress on recovery efforts across multiple workstreams. From now on, updates will be delivered directly to affected customers through the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. Customers who require assistance with this event are encouraged to contact AWS Support through the AWS Management Console or the AWS Support Center. AWS Status Page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status