# Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/providers/confluent)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 105d 7h
- started 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- me-central-1, me-south-1
- id: DWN-3d399c251c
- Official page: https://stspg.io/mqw2yg36sy23

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-03-20 13:58 UTC: monitoring
AWS regional recovery is expected to be extended in both me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions. Customers requiring immediate restoration in these two regions are encouraged to review regional failover options.

### 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC: monitoring
Provisioning new workloads in AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions is disabled. Migration steps to other AWS regions have been communicated to impacted customers.

### 2026-04-02 15:40 UTC: monitoring
Per AWS, the me-south-1 region is now completely unavailable. Customers will not be able to access clusters in the me-south-1 region. Customers who have workloads in me-central-1 are strongly advised to relocate them to an alternative region.

### 2026-07-16 03:21 UTC: resolved
Resolved.

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