# AWS: Region Availability (UAE)

> AWS services do not work in the Middle East (UAE) Region (me-central-1). This affects many components, including Amazon S3 Replication Time Control, Amazon Relational Database Service, AWS Sign-In, and AWS Direct Connect. AWS reports that resources in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone cannot be restored. AWS continues to recover other regional and zonal resources. The incident is active.

- Provider: [AWS](https://outages.live/aws.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: active
- Worst impact: Major outage
- Started: 2026-03-01 12:51 UTC
- Components: Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, Amazon S3 Replication Time Control, Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Sign-In, AWS End User Messaging, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow, AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon Simple Workflow Service, AWS IoT Device Defender, Traffic Mirroring, AWS NAT Gateway, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, AWS Batch, AWS DataSync, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Launch Wizard, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon FSx, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Resource Groups, AWS Verified Access, AWS Resource Groups Tagging API, Amazon Simple Storage Service, AWS CloudHSM, Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS Console Mobile App, Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, AWS CloudShell, AWS Service Quotas, AWS Amplify, Infrastructure Performance, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon CloudWatch RUM, AWS WAF, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon EMR Serverless, AWS Config, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, AWS Glue, Reachability Analyzer, AWS Security Incident Response, Control Catalog, AWS Systems Manager for SAP, Amazon Route 53 Private DNS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Resource Explorer, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS IoT Device Management, Amazon Neptune, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Inspector, AWS Control Tower, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Internet Connectivity, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, AWS Lake Formation, AWS License Manager, AWS Outposts, VM Import/Export, AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS Key Management Service, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Security Token Service, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS AppConfig, AWS Client VPN, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon VPC IP Address Manager, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, AWS VPCE PrivateLink, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Fault Injection Service, Amazon MQ, EC2 Serial Console, AWS Elemental, AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, AWS AppSync, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Directory Service, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon Cognito, AWS Resource Access Manager, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, AWS Systems Manager, EC2 Image Builder, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Amazon Glacier, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Private Certificate Authority, AWS Network Firewall, AWS IoT Core, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Private CA Connector for SCEP, AWS Application Migration Service, Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Identity and Access Management Roles Anywhere, Amazon Bedrock, AWS Security Hub, AWS X-Ray, Auto Scaling, AWS Backup, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, AWS CodeCommit, AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, Amazon Elastic File System, Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild
- Official update: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

## Updates from AWS

### active, 2026-11-01 08:39 UTC

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 alternate Regions. We remain committed to supporting our customers in the UAE. We are working on replacing the affected infrastructure and will provide an update on the restoration of our services in the coming months. We have notified the relevant authorities and continue to work with them toward that