AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage, 2 March 2026
Multiple services (Bahrain): Region Availability
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Investigating
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- Bahrain
Last update from AWS (Amazon Web Services)
We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) Region. The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region. When the first Availability Zone was damaged in March, we began recommending that customers migrate their workloads to other Regions, and most did so before the Region became unavailable following the disruption of a second Availability Zone in April. Since then, we have supported the remaining custome...
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