Outage report · Partial outage

Cloudways outage on Mar 1, 2026

AWS Middle East (UAE) Outage

SeverityPartial outage
StartedMar 1, 2026, 13:53UTC
ResolvedAug 28, 2026, 19:26UTC
Duration180d 5h

What happened

Cloudways reported a partial outage starting Mar 1, 2026, 13:53 UTC, affecting AWS. It was marked resolved at Aug 28, 2026, 19:26 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 180d 5h from first report to resolution.
  • It was the longest significant outage Cloudways reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Cloudways had reported 1 other partial or major outage in the 90 days before it.
  • 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Cloudways

Following the ongoing AWS outage in the ME-Central-1 (UAE) region, we have disabled server provisioning in this region. If you currently have active workloads in ME-Central-1, please migrate them to an alternative region of your choice. Our support team is available if you need guidance or assistance during the migration process. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation as we take steps to ensure your service reliability.

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Cloudways started after this incident, so this report is based on Cloudways's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

Cloudways's overall reliability

32.0/100

Cloudways has a reliability score of 32.0/100, with 93.40% effective uptime and 12 incidents over the last 90 days.

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