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🟡 Fly's managed Postgres in SYD decided new clusters are too much responsibility right now. Existing DBs mostly chilling, but creates/restores/upgrades are getting the silent treatment. Some clusters did surprise failovers—the database equivalent of ghosting your primary. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Apr 09, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Managed Postgres Control Plane Issues in SYD

// Status page says

Apr 9 , 03:50 UTC Investigating - We are investigating elevated control plane issues for Managed Postgres clusters in SYD. The majority of clusters appear to be running fine, but new creates, backup restores, and upgrades may show errors or take longer than usual to complete. Some clusters will have seen a failover event from primary to standby.

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/8pwjk05c8275

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