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🟡 PlanetScale's API is taking Vitess branch orders like a restaurant that stopped cooking. Your new databases exist in spirit only—accepted but unprovisioned. They're investigating why the infrastructure said 'no thanks' at 11:00 UTC. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 24, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Vitess branch creation unavailable

// Status page says

Status: Investigating New Vitess databases are being accepted by the PlanetScale API but we are unable to provision the infrastructure to serve them. We've confirmed this impact and are investigating the cause. We will provide further updates by 11:00 UTC. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

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

https://www.planetscalestatus.com//incidents/01KJ7JYZJARV862K29M2MMASPY

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