Elasticsearch outage: Issue creating new projects in AWS ap-southeast-2

1. resolvedMay 29, 2026, 18:36 UTC

   This issue has been resolved.

2. investigatingMay 29, 2026, 18:00 UTC

   We're aware of an issue with creating Serverless projects in the AWS ap-southeast-2 region. The engineering team is investigating the problem. We will post the next update in 2 hours.

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