[Increased Error Rates] Service disruption: Increased Error Rates
We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) Region. The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region. When the first Availability Zone was damaged in March, we began recommending that customers migrate their workloads to other Regions, and most did so before the Region became unavailable following the disruption of a second Availability Zone in April. Since then, we have supported the remaining customers in re-establishing their operations in alternate Regions, using backups where available or implementing alternative solutions to mitigate the impact of inaccessible data. In parallel, we assessed all affected infrastructure and exhausted every option for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before the Region became unavailable. We remain committed to supporting our customers in Bahrain in the long term and will share a further update in early 2027. We have notified the relevant authorities and continue to work with them toward that goal.
Started
Sep 15, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC
Status
Ongoing
Elapsed
28h 12m
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