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MongoDB: Impaired Cluster Operations – AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) and AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain)

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March 2026 1 Major incident

Impact: Some Atlas customers with deployments in the AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) region may experience delays in cluster operations (for example, creating, scaling, or modifying clusters and infrastructure-level maintenance tasks). Root cause: AWS is reporting connectivity and power issues affecting APIs and instances in a single Availability Zone in the me-central-1 Region, which can cause increased errors and latency for some AWS services and workflows. For the latest details from AWS, see the AWS Health Dashboard. What you might see: - Cluster create/scale/modify operations remaining in a pending or in-progress state longer than usual - Slower completion of some maintenance and infrastructure operations in the affected region Our actions: - Monitoring the AWS incident and Atlas fleet behavior in me-central-1 Customer action: No action is required at this time. We expect delayed operations to complete as AWS resolves the underlying issue. If you have time-sensitive changes that are blocked and need urgent assistance, please contact MongoDB Support. Next update: We will provide updates on this page as AWS progresses mitigation or if we observe any change in impact to Atlas customers.

Started

13:48 UTC

Duration

Lasted 186d 3h

Source

IsDown

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Affected components: MongoDB Cloud

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Impact: Some Atlas customers with deployments in the AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) region may experience delays in cluster operations (for example, creating, scaling, or modifying clusters and infrastructure-level maintenance tasks). Root cause: AWS is reporting connectivity and power issues affecting APIs and instances in a single Availability Zone in the me-central-1 Region, which can cause increased errors and latency for some AWS services and workflows. For the latest details from AWS, see the AWS Health Dashboard. What you might see: - Cluster create/scale/modify operations remaining in a pending or in-progress state longer than usual - Slower completion of some maintenance and infrastructure operations in the affected region Our actions: - Monitoring the AWS incident and Atlas fleet behavior in me-central-1 Customer action: No action is required at this time. We expect delayed operations to complete as AWS resolves the underlying issue. If you have time-sensitive changes that are blocked and need urgent assistance, please contact MongoDB Support. Next update: We will provide updates on this page as AWS progresses mitigation or if we observe any change in impact to Atlas customers.

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