# CockroachDB: Serverless Cluster Resource Limit Throttling

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2023-08-02 16:05 UTC · Resolved: 2023-08-02 19:44 UTC · Duration: 3.6 h
- Updates: 4 · Affected components: CockroachDB Serverless
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/j4czbs8w51fn](https://stspg.io/j4czbs8w51fn)
- [Company: CockroachDB](https://rewindex.com/company/cockroachdb.md)

## Summary

CockroachDB reported a major Serverless degradation in AWS eu-west-1 and AWS ap-south-1: some clusters remained throttled after resource limits were increased. It started at 2023-08-02 16:05 UTC and was resolved at 2023-08-02 19:44 UTC, lasting 3 h 39 min; previously throttled clusters now reflect resource-limit changes. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2023-08-02 16:05 UTC: Some Serverless clusters that have hit their resource limits are still being throttled even after limits have been increased. Currently only AWS eu-west-1 and ap-south-1 host clusters are impacted
- **investigating** 2023-08-02 16:10 UTC: Some Serverless clusters that have hit their resource limits are still being throttled even after limits have been increased.
- **identified** 2023-08-02 19:02 UTC: The scope of the impact has been limited to serverless clusters running AWS eu-west-1 and AWS ap-south-1. Clusters that have hit their resource limits will be throttled despite having their limits increased. One of two issues identified has been mitigated.
- **resolved** 2023-08-02 19:44 UTC: This issue has now been resolved. Users with clusters that were previously throttled will now see their changes to resource limits reflected.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2023-08-02 16:05 UTC: [Major incident: Serverless Cluster Resource Limit Throttling](https://rewindex.com/change/ieec85ed103a44d.md)


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