PlanetScale outage: AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures

1. resolvedOct 9, 2026, 23:19 UTC

   AWS us-east-1 cross-zone networking has fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 9, 2026, 23:13 UTC

   A small number of database branches in AWS us-east-1 were impacted by cross-zone networking issues, for which the impact window has ended. If you continue to see impact, please reach out to PlanetScale support.

3. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 22:53 UTC

   We are investigating reports of connectivity failures scoped to a single AZ in AWS us-east-1 causing replica delay and connectivity issues.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 9, 2026, 22:57 UTCoperational → partial outage
• Oct 9, 2026, 23:22 UTCpartial outage → operational

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