Service health - Mar 01, 2026 | AWS Health Dashboard
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March 1, 2026
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The AWS Health Dashboard reported significant progress in addressing a power-related issue impacting EC2 Networking APIs in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region. Initially caused by a fire incident that shut off power to one Availability Zone (mec1-az2), AWS has been working on recovery efforts, with several APIs already showing improvement. Key networking operations like AllocateAddress and AssociateAddress are now functioning in most areas, though some specific issues remain unresolved. Customers are advised to retry failed requests and use alternate regions or Availability Zones where possible. AWS expects full recovery of affected services within a few hours but has yet to provide an exact timeline for power restoration.
The incident began on March 1 at around 4:30 AM PST when objects struck the data center
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Originally published on Hacker News on 3/1/2026