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🔴 ME-SOUTH-1 is offline indefinitely due to geopolitical realities AWS can't AWS-away from. Billing's frozen, your data's homeless, and recovery involves actual geography lessons. Guess the cloud isn't as borderless as the marketing said. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
// The official story
Service disruption: Increased Connectivity Issues and API Error Rates
// Status page says
The Middle East (Bahrain) Region (ME-SOUTH-1) has suffered damage due to the conflict in the Middle East and is currently unavailable. Customers should recover their resources in other Regions from remote backups. Relevant billing operations are currently suspended while we restore normal operations in this AWS Region. This process is expected to take several months.
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