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🟡 Fly's Chicago data center decided to ghost its upstream provider, leaving machines catatonic and Postgres clusters playing dead. Deploys are experiencing the joy of quantum computing—simultaneously succeeding and failing until observed. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 03, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Partial outage in ORD

// Status page says

Jul 3 , 00:11 UTC Investigating - We are investigating an issue with one of our upstream providers in ORD. Machines across a subset of hosts may be unreachable or not running correctly. Deploys with machines on these hosts may fail at this time. Some Managed Postgres clusters in ORD region may be unavailable at this time.

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

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/mv0vhw24tkq8

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