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PlanetScale: AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (26 min)3 updatesSource: www.planetscalestatus.com (opens in new tab)
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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Affected components: us-east-1 (Northern Virginia)us-east-1 (Northern Virginia)

Timeline of updates

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of connectivity failures scoped to a single AZ in AWS us-east-1 causing replica delay and connectivity issues.

  2. monitoring

    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.

  3. resolved

    AWS us-east-1 cross-zone networking has fully recovered.

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