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🟡 One availability zone in us-east-1 decided to go dark, turning replicas into time travelers and connections into fiction. PlanetScale's status page is doing that thing where 'investigating' means engineers are stress-eating at their desks. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ 3d ago Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are investigating reports of connectivity failures scoped to a single AZ in AWS us-east-1 causing replica delay and connectivity issues. Affected components us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) (Partial outage)

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

https://www.planetscalestatus.com//incidents/01M4HDY5JA1ZGFD2GM5518AS49

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🟢 PLANETSCALE Sep 05, 2026
🟡 PlanetScale's Vitess clusters in GCP decided simultaneous ghosting was on brand—Iowa, Montreal, Seoul, and Virginia all taking connectivity timeouts. Investigators report the databases are present but spiritually absent. Schrödinger's data: simultaneously connected and not connected. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 PLANETSCALE Jul 24, 2026
🟠 PlanetScale's Query Insights metrics are ghosting users—reporting fewer queries than actually happened. Your databases are fine, but the telescope measuring them needs glasses. They're deploying fixes now, probably after coffee. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 PLANETSCALE Jul 18, 2026
🟡 PlanetScale's Northern Virginia servers discovered they don't actually need to accept connections. Engineering team now interrogating the infrastructure about its sudden commitment issues. Remediation in progress, which is consultant-speak for 'we're Googling this.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 PLANETSCALE Jul 17, 2026
🔴 PlanetScale's dashboard and API discovered that memory is finite. Turns out a specific request pattern was basically a denial-of-service attack on their own infrastructure. Engineering team now teaching their servers what 'moderation' means. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)