# MongoDB Atlas: MongoDB Atlas: Cluster down alerts and difficulty creating clusters in AWS us-east-1

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2021-12-22 13:07 UTC · Resolved: 2021-12-22 15:12 UTC · Duration: 2.1 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.mongodb.com/incidents/yd8zg93kq2zk](https://status.mongodb.com/incidents/yd8zg93kq2zk)
- [Company: MongoDB Atlas](https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [AWS us-east-1 outage, Dec 22, 2021: 40 vendors, 40 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2021-12-22-aws-us-east-1)
- This incident names AWS / us-east-1 (location or integration). (hop 1, posted +25 min vs the first vendor naming AWS)
- Evidence: “…MongoDB Atlas: Cluster down alerts and difficulty creating clusters in AWS us-east-1 This incident has been resolved.…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["AWS us-east-1<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>8 vendors, 6 blamed AWS<br/>Firebolt, Bitbucket, HubSpot, CircleCI +4"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor<br/>Confluent"]:::names
  root --> h4
  me["MongoDB Atlas (this incident)<br/>posted +25 min"]:::me
  h1 --- me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2021-12-22 15:12 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas/incidents/yd8zg93kq2zk · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas/incidents/yd8zg93kq2zk.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/mongodb-atlas/incidents/yd8zg93kq2zk · Generated 2026-10-20T00:18:53.892Z