# Backblaze: New account sign-ups temporarily unavailable in EU Central

> New account sign-ups do not work in the EU Central region. Backblaze reports that the outage is resolved. The outage lasted about 40 hours.

- Provider: [Backblaze](https://outages.live/backblaze.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Major outage
- Started: 2026-11-08 04:24 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-11-09 20:24 UTC (lasted 40 h)
- Official update: https://status.backblaze.com/incidents/866c63d6-fbce-489a-8f7c-beabcba6bb10

## Updates from Backblaze

### resolved, 2026-11-09 20:24 UTC

No text.

### investigating, 2026-11-09 20:15 UTC

New account sign-ups in the EU Central region are temporarily unavailable.

### investigating, 2026-11-09 18:42 UTC

New account sign-ups in the EU Central region are temporarily unavailable. This status will be updated as the situation changes.

### resolved, 2026-11-08 05:27 UTC

No text.

### investigating, 2026-11-08 05:15 UTC

Currently, no customer impact, but if the upload rate doesn't drop in the next few hours all of 003 will be offline for days or weeks.