AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage, 1 March 2026
Multiple services (UAE): Region Availability
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Investigating
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- UAE
Last update from AWS (Amazon Web Services)
We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) Region. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone. We continue to work on recovering regional resources, as well as zonal resources hosted in the other affected Availability Zones (mec1-az1 and mec1-az3). Since the disruption began in March, most customers have been able to re-establish their operations in other Regions by restoring backups or copying data that remained accessible. AWS Support remains available to help customers who need assistance moving their applications to alte...
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