Outage report · Major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Mar 2, 2026

Region Availability

SeverityMajor outage
StartedMar 2, 2026, 05:56UTC
ResolvedSep 15, 2026, 10:22UTC
Duration197d 4h

What happened

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a major outage starting Mar 2, 2026, 05:56 UTC, affecting multipleservices, me-south-1. It was marked resolved at Sep 15, 2026, 10:22 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 197d 4h from first report to resolution.
  • It was the 2nd longest of 3 significant outages Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) had reported 1 other partial or major outage in the 90 days before it.
  • 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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 customers in re-establishing their operations in alternate Regions, using backups where available or implementing alternative solutions to mitigate the impact of inaccessible data. In parallel, we assessed all affected infrastructure and exhausted every option for restoring data and resources that had not

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Amazon Web Services (AWS) started after this incident, so this report is based on Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s status page.

Other outages around the same time

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s overall reliability

61.8/100

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a reliability score of 61.8/100, with 99.43% effective uptime and 7 incidents over the last 90 days.

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