Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive cloud-provider IAM authentication error
Incident Lifecycle
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Jul 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM UTC
Identified
We have identified that the issue is caused by a recent configuration change to IAM authentication and are working on a fix.
Jul 9, 2026 at 10:57 AM UTC
Investigating
Users of Atlas Data Federation and Online Archive using cloud-provider IAM authentication may see pipelines fail with an error when querying backing Atlas clusters. Other authentication methods are unaffected. As a temporary workaround, users can use SCRAM authentication.
Jul 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
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