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MongoDB Atlas incident

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

Resolved after 186 days.

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Partial outage
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  1. MongoDB Atlas status page · Reported Impaired Cluster Operations – AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) and AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain)
  2. MongoDB Atlas status page · Identified According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup snapshot expirations in me-central-1 as needed. We will provide another update by March 9 at…
  3. MongoDB Atlas status page · Identified According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup snapshot expirations in me-central-1 as needed. We will provide another update by March 10 at…
  4. MongoDB Atlas status page · Identified According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup snapshot expirations in me-central-1 as needed. We will provide another update by March 11 at…
  5. MongoDB Atlas status page · Identified According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup snapshot expirations in me-central-1 as needed. We expect our guidance to remain unchanged for…
  6. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup snapshot expirations in me-central-1 as needed. We expect our guidance to remain unchanged for…
  7. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring According to AWS, two Availability Zones in me-central-1 (UAE) and one Availability Zone in me-south-1 (Bahrain) continue to experience impairments. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. We encourage customers running workloads in the Middle East to consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, as appropriate for your latency and data residency requirements. Customers may consider extending their backup…
  8. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, clusters in me-south-1 cannot be modified and may be unable to process normal operations. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in the affected regions act now to move their clusters to alternate regions instead of waiting for full availability to be restored. We continue to assist customers in their chosen remediation path to the extent possible. Customers running workloads in the Middle East should consider alternate Atlas regions, such as those in North America…
  9. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in AWS me-central-1 act now to move their clusters to alternate regions instead of waiting for full availability to be restored. There are currently no recovery options available for data that is only present in the AWS me-south-1…
  10. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring Two Availability Zones in AWS me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. We strongly recommend that customers with workloads in AWS me-central-1 act now to move their clusters to alternate regions instead of waiting for full availability to be restored. There are currently no recovery options available for data that is only present in the AWS me-south-1…
  11. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) have suffered damage in these regions. Workloads in me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. According to the AWS Service Health Dashboard update from April 30th, recovery is expected to take several months. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We…
  12. MongoDB Atlas status page · Monitoring AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) have suffered damage in these regions. Workloads in me-central-1 (UAE) continue to experience significant impairments. In addition, workloads in me-south-1 (Bahrain) are currently not operational, cannot be modified, and are not able to migrate to other regions or support other disaster recovery actions such as backup and restore. According to the AWS Service Health Dashboard update from April 30th, recovery is expected to take several months. The latest information from AWS is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status. We…
  13. MongoDB Atlas status page · Resolved While we are marking this issue as resolved, the issue actually remains ongoing. We are marking this as resolved to improve the experience of users on our status page. The latest information from AWS remains available at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status We will update this post as necessary. Thanks in advance for your understanding.

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Site Qwality, “Impaired Cluster Operations – AWS me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) and AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain),” Mar 1, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-mongodb-atlas-down/incidents/mongodb-atlas-202603011348/

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