AWS me-central-1 Availability Zone Outage

Incident Report for Kurrent Cloud

Monitoring

Per AWS: At around 4:30 AM PST 1 Mar 2026, one of the Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. At 10:46 PM PST it was confirmed a second AZ (mec1-az3) was impacted by "localized power issues" causing EC2 API and instance launch error in mec1-az1. At 12:52 AM PST 2 Mar 2026, AWS posted that it is not currently possible to launch new instances. The 6:22 AM PST update stated recovery of the two impaired Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region is expected to take at least a day.

We will continue to monitor the situation. We encourage customers to check the AWS Service Health page for the most recent updates.

Posted Mar 02, 2026 - 14:43 UTC

This incident affects: Provisioning AWS.