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PlanetScale: Major incident: AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures

Summary

PlanetScale reported a major incident affecting a small number of database branches in AWS us-east-1, with connectivity failures scoped to one AZ causing replica delay and connectivity issues. It started at 2026-10-09 22:53 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-09 23:19 UTC, lasting 25 min; the vendor said cross-zone networking fully recovered.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 45%)Changed Detected Source: www.planetscalestatus.com

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures
AddedImpact#2
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After: 2026-10-09 22:53 UTC
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AddedUpdateinvestigating#6
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After: We are investigating reports of connectivity failures scoped to a single AZ in AWS us-east-1 causing replica delay and connectivity issues.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#7
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After: A small number of database branches in AWS us-east-1 were impacted by cross-zone networking issues, for which the impact window has ended. If you continue to see impact, please reach out to PlanetScale support.
AddedUpdateresolved#8
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After: AWS us-east-1 cross-zone networking has fully recovered.

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History of this incident

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Major incident: AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures (this change)
PlanetScale reported a major incident affecting a small number of database branches in AWS us-east-1, with connectivity failures scoped to one AZ causing replica delay and connectivity issues. It started at 2026-10-09 22:53 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-09 23:19 UTC, lasting 25 min; the vendor said cross-zone networking fully recovered.
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