Isitreallydown?
// Incident Post-MortemDRN-0FD8E8BE

AWS outage on May 7, 2026

Major severityResolved19hCloud
Started · UTC
May 07, 10:00 PM
5d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 08, 05:00 PM
4d ago
Duration
19h
End-to-end
Peak confidence
85.00
200 snapshots
// What happened

AWS appears mostly operational, but Isitreallydown?'s test connections are failing in me-south-1 (Manama, Bahrain), which is 1 of 37 AWS regions. User reports are quiet and other regions are reporting normal health, suggesting this degradation is isolated to the Middle East region.

Cached · Mon, May 11, 2026, 01:37 PM UTC · scope: service signals

// Timeline
  1. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for AWS US-EAST-1 thermal event — power loss in single AZ.

  3. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 32.00.

  4. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.

  5. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 19h of observed impact.

// Signals by source2 sources
  • News scan

    News: Too EarlyNo matching news yet for this signal.

  • Cloud scope

    Cloud impact scope: [Object Object]Provider-level impact correlation flagged this scope.

    [Object Object]
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

85.00

The incident reached 85.00 peak confidence across 200 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

3 affected

3 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Fri, May 08, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC.

// User impact

AWS users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 19h. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.