Upstash outage: Upstash Redis – intermittent connection issues in some regions

Affected components

• Mumbai, India (ap-south-1)
• N. California, USA (us-west-1)
• N. Virginia, USA (us-east-1)
• Sydney, Australia (ap-southeast-2)

1. resolvedMay 14, 2026, 17:31 UTC

   Earlier today, unexpected load on our proxies caused intermittent connection issues for Upstash Redis in the following regions: us-east-1, us-west-1, ap-southeast-2, and ap-south-1. During this period, some clients may have seen connection timeouts or elevated error rates when reaching their databases. Our team identified the issue quickly and applied workarounds to relieve pressure on the affected proxies. Connection health has since been restored and we've been monitoring the regions to confirm everything is stable. All systems are now operating normally. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any disruption this may have caused.

2. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 16:00 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring.

3. identifiedMay 14, 2026, 15:49 UTC

   The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

4. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 15:47 UTC

   We identified intermittent connection issues affecting some regions. Fix is being deployed. We'll update the list of affected regions shortly.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Upstash's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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