Neon: ES-1900190
AWS us-east-1 outage, May 8, 2026 · 38 vendors, 43 incidents
Neon’s incident names AWS / us-east-1 (location or integration). (hop 1, posted −1 h 30 min vs AWS’s own post)
“…een 20:03 UTC and 22:13 UTC on May 7, 2026, a subset of customers using Neon databases in AWS us-east-1 may have experienced issues with compute endpoints not scaling down to zero after periods of ina…”
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h1["Within an hour<br/>11 vendors, 11 blamed AWS<br/>Chargebee, RudderStack, Canva, Logz.io +7"]:::blames
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h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>10 vendors, 9 blamed AWS<br/>Salesforce, Dropbox Sign, Klaviyo, HubSpot +6"]:::blames
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later["Later<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed AWS<br/>Wiz, SingleStore"]:::blames
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me["Neon (this incident)<br/>posted −1 h 30 min"]:::me
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Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Affected components: Database Connectivity
Timeline of updates
- monitoring
Starting at 20:03 UTC on May 7, 2026, a subset of customers using Neon databases in AWS us-east-1 may have experienced issues with compute endpoints not scaling down to zero after periods of inactivity. Mitigation has been applied, and affected endpoints are recovering. We are monitoring to confirm full resolution. Customers may have observed: - Issues starting recently with suspended compute's - Database compute endpoints not suspending during periods of inactivity - Unexpected active compute usage for idle databases No customer action is required at this time. We will provide a further update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in status.
- resolved
Between 20:03 UTC and 22:13 UTC on May 7, 2026, a subset of customers using Neon databases in AWS us-east-1 may have experienced issues with compute endpoints not scaling down to zero after periods of inactivity, as well as issues starting recently suspended computes. The issue has been fully resolved, and all services are operating normally. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you require further details about this incident, please submit a support ticket.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on neonstatus.com (opens in new tab).