Downrightnow
// Incident Post-MortemDRN-42DD8F56

AWS outage on July 17, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 2mCloud
Started · UTC
Jul 17, 09:07 AM
22h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 17, 03:09 PM
16h ago
Duration
6h 2m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
58.00
240 snapshots
// User impact

AWS users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 2m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Current signals suggest a potential regional disruption in the AWS me-south-1 (Manama, Bahrain) region, where Downrightnow's connectivity checks are failing. AWS has not opened an official incident, and because user reports are quiet and other regions remain healthy, this appears to be a localized issue rather than a broad outage. Separately, recent reports indicate some AWS customers are seeing erroneous billing forecasts, which may suggest a widespread metering error unrelated to regional connectivity.

Cached · Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for AWS: inaccurate Estimated Billing Data.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 2m of observed impact.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • Cloud scope

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

    [Object Object]
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

58.00

The incident reached 58.00 peak confidence across 240 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC.