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MongoDB Atlas: Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive cloud-provider IAM authentication error
Affected components: MongoDB Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive
Timeline of updates
- investigating
Users of Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive using cloud-provider IAM authentication may see pipelines fail with an error when querying backing Atlas clusters. Other authentication methods are unaffected. As a temporary workaround, users can use SCRAM authentication.
- identified
We have identified that the issue is caused by a recent configuration change to IAM authentication and are working on a fix.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
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First version captured
In the 2026-10-17 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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Cite this
Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by MongoDB Atlas, started 2026-07-09 10:23 UTC, resolved after 43 min, 4 update(s).
- Title
- Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive cloud-provider IAM authentication error
- Vendor
- MongoDB Atlas
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas/incidents/q5ybj217pv4m
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