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Severe latency and unresponsiveness in me-central-1 (UAE) region

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Hello,

Since today we are experiencing severe issues in the me-central-1 (UAE) region: • AWS Console becomes extremely slow or even unusable when switching to me-central-1. • ECS/EKS/EC2 cluster lists fail to load with errors like “Deserialization error: network error”. • Deployed services behind ALB/API Gateway take over a minute to respond, sometimes not responding at all. • Even SSH sessions to bastion hosts in me-central-1 show heavy input lag (typing delayed several seconds). • We tested from multiple networks (corporate, home, mobile hotspot) and even from users physically located in UAE, and the issue is the same. • Other regions (ap-northeast-2, us-east-1, etc.) work perfectly fine.

We have checked our VPC routing, security groups, and ECS task health — all seem normal. This appears to be a region-wide latency or control plane issue in me-central-1.

Is anyone else seeing the same problem in me-central-1? Any confirmation from AWS side or workarounds would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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Management & GovernanceNetworking & Content DeliveryContainers
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Amazon VPCECS Service DiscoveryAWS Management ConsoleNetworking & Content Delivery
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asked 11 days ago13 views
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Based on the symptoms you're describing, it appears you're experiencing significant latency issues specific to the me-central-1 (UAE) region. While I don't have information about a confirmed current outage in me-central-1, there are several potential factors that could be contributing to your experience.

High latency in specific AWS regions can be caused by various factors:

  1. Network connectivity issues between your location and the me-central-1 region
  2. Possible regional infrastructure challenges or maintenance
  3. High resource utilization on AWS services in that region
  4. Network congestion or routing problems

For your specific situation, the fact that the issue is consistent across multiple networks and even for users physically located in UAE suggests this may be related to the AWS infrastructure or network routing in that region rather than a client-side issue.

Some troubleshooting steps you could take:

  1. Monitor the AWS Service Health Dashboard for any announced issues in me-central-1
  2. Open a support case with AWS to report the issue and get region-specific information
  3. Temporarily redirect critical workloads to another region if possible
  4. Use CloudWatch metrics to check if your resources are experiencing unusual CPU, memory, or network utilization
  5. Test network performance using tools that can measure latency to specific AWS endpoints in that region

Since other regions are working normally for you, this appears to be isolated to me-central-1. Without official confirmation from AWS, it's difficult to determine if this is a widespread issue affecting all customers in that region or something specific to your account's resources.
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Troubleshoot latency on calls or requests to Amazon ECS tasks | AWS re:Post
Troubleshoot high response times and ECS latency issues | AWS re:Post

answered 11 days ago

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