SNOWFLAKE

🔴 Snowflake's Middle East region got unplugged by a power outage. AWS is doing that thing where they say 'multiple hours' which in corporate time means 'we genuinely have no idea.' Recovery happening but slower than your ex returning texts. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Mar 02, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

AWS - Middle East (UAE): INC0152681

// Status page says

Mar 2 , 00:23 UTC Update - Current status: We continue to coordinate closely with our cloud provider as they work to resolve a major service disruption caused by a power outage at a primary data center. While we are seeing initial signs of recovery across several services, the provider expects full restoration to take multiple hours as they safely stabilize the environment. We'll provide another update within 6 hours. <br

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/rby2mg3mxmvp

Snowflake's Greatest Hits

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Sep 01, 2026

🟠 Snowflake found the bug hiding in plain sight and is slowly letting customers back in like a bouncer checking IDs. Most folks can login again, but they're taking their sweet time rolling out the fix to everyone else. ETA: another hour of watching the status page like it's a reality show. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Aug 31, 2026

🟠 Snowflake went full 'Elsa had a bad day' across multiple regions, then ungracefully thawed most things back. Snowsight and Streaming still doing their best impression of ghosts. Recovery theater continues. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Aug 28, 2026

🟠 Snowflake's Snowpark Container Services ghosted an entire region—turns out their cloud provider's capacity evaporated. They're now playing musical chairs with compute resources, prioritizing Business Critical accounts while everyone else watches from the timeout corner. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Aug 14, 2026

🟡 Snowflake decided to play dead in certain regions—users getting 503s faster than a failed API call. The warehouse is now a very expensive interactive fiction game where the goal is to log in. Engineering team's 30-minute update window: the corporate way of saying 'we're still googling the error code.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)