Impaired Cluster Operations – AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) and AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain)
AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) have suffered damage in these regions. Workloads in me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. According to the...
Started · 2026-03-01 13:48 UTC
Official incident update2026-03-01 13:48 UTCIdentified
Impact: Some Atlas customers with deployments in the AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) region may experience delays in cluster operations (for example, creating, scaling, or modifying clusters and infrastructure-level maintenance tasks). Root cause: AWS is reporting connectivity and power issues affecting APIs and instances in a single Availability Zone in the me-central-1 Region, which ...
2026-03-01 14:55 UTCIdentified
Update: One or more instances backing MongoDB Atlas clusters in the AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) region may have been temporarily unavailable due to an underlying AWS issue in a single Availability Zone . According to AWS, a localized power issue in this Availability Zone has affected connectivity and power for some APIs and instances, and may have caused increased errors, latency, o...
2026-03-01 19:30 UTCIdentified
Update: We are continuing to monitor an ongoing issue in AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) caused by an underlying AWS infrastructure disruption isolated to a single Availability Zone. Please visit the AWS Health Dashboard for detailed information on the Availability Zone outage (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status). If you have time-sensitive changes that are blocked and need ur...
2026-03-02 02:17 UTCIdentified
Update: We are continuing to monitor an ongoing issue in AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) caused by an underlying AWS infrastructure disruption isolated to a single Availability Zone. Please visit the AWS Health Dashboard for detailed information on the Availability Zone outage (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status). If you have time-sensitive changes that are blocked and need ur...
2026-03-02 09:20 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience outages. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. CURRENT IMPACT Atlas clusters deployed only in me-central-1 may be fully unavailable. For clusters operating solely in me-central-1, backup operations in th...
2026-03-02 19:58 UTCIdentified
CURRENT IMPACT According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. AWS is currently experiencing infrastructure impairments in two Middle East regions: * ME-CENTRAL-1 (Middle East – Central): Two Availabi...
2026-03-03 17:20 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to c...
2026-03-03 22:54 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to c...
2026-03-04 06:03 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to c...
2026-03-04 16:33 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to c...
2026-03-05 14:59 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in the United States, Europe, or Asia Pacific, ...
2026-03-06 14:24 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in the United States, Europe, or Asia Pacific, ...
2026-03-07 15:28 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-08 15:42 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-09 16:02 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-10 15:59 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-11 15:48 UTCIdentified
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-18 15:51 UTCMonitoring
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as a...
2026-03-25 15:33 UTCMonitoring
According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to c...
2026-03-26 21:35 UTCMonitoring
Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, clusters in me-south-1 cannot be modified and may be unable to process normal operations. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in the affected regions act now to move their clusters to alternate regions instead of waiting for full availability to be restored. We continu...
2026-04-01 16:02 UTCMonitoring
Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in AWS me-central-1 act now to mo...
2026-04-08 15:33 UTCMonitoring
Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in AWS me-central-1 act now to mo...
2026-05-06 16:02 UTCMonitoring
AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) have suffered damage in these regions. Workloads in me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. According to the...
2026-06-03 15:46 UTCMonitoring
AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) have suffered damage in these regions. Workloads in me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. According to the...