Physical Incident Causes Major Outage at AWS Data Center in Middle East

On March 1, 2026, a physical incident at an AWS data center in the Middle East caused a power outage and physical damage, leading to a massive outage. The affected AWS region was me-central-1, with critical services such as EC2 and RDS rendered unavailable. The event involved a fire and raised concerns about the resilience of cloud infrastructure against unexpected disruptions. No specific technical details, such as root cause or affected customer count, were provided in the report.