# Wiz: Major incident: AWS service disruptions affecting the me-central-1 region, affected DCs: prod-me1

**Summary:** Wiz reported a major outage affecting Authentication, Ingestion, Portal, Sensor, Wiz CLI, Wiz Code and Wiz Defend in me-central-1 (prod-me1), starting 2026-03-01 20:42 UTC and lasting 36 h 32 min. Marked resolved at 2026-03-03 09:15 UTC, the final update nevertheless said full resolution depended on AWS restoring affected regional services. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-03-01 20:42 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/73s5nsxspkb0](https://stspg.io/73s5nsxspkb0)
- [Company: Wiz](https://rewindex.com/company/wiz.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:323/1zkzb93rmr0h@544aad35cd4b
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ AWS service disruptions affecting the me-central-1 region, affected DCs: prod-me1
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-03-01 20:42 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-03-03 09:15 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Authentication, Ingestion, Portal, Sensor, Wiz CLI, Wiz Code, Wiz Defend
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**7. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-03-01 20:42 UTC

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+ See AWS status: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?path=service-history
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**8. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-03-02 07:12 UTC

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+ AWS Impact has expanded to include additional availability zones and core services within the ME-CENTRAL-1 region. Affected DCs: prod-me1 Additional information can be found on the AWS status page - https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-03-03 09:15 UTC

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+ The issue will be fully resolved once AWS restores the affected services in the region. We are actively monitoring the situation and closely tracking AWS status updates. In parallel, our team continues working internally with impacted users to minimize disruption and restore functionality within our platform wherever possible. We will provide further updates as soon as AWS confirms full service restoration. AWS status: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?path=service-history
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-03-01 20:42 UTC | Major incident: AWS service disruptions affecting the me-central-1 region, affected DCs: prod-me1 (this change) | outage |

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