Fly.io experiences partial outage in Chicago region

Machines unreachable on affected hosts; Managed Postgres clusters unavailable.

By The Downtime · Jul 3, 2026 · 12:15 AM ·Updated 1 month ago

Fly.io is investigating a partial outage affecting its ORD (Chicago) region. Machines across a subset of hosts may be unreachable or not running correctly, and deploys to affected hosts are failing. Some Managed Postgres clusters in the ORD region are currently unavailable.

Fly.io is a cloud platform that allows developers to deploy applications and databases globally across multiple regions.

The company reported the issue is tied to a problem with one of its upstream providers in the ORD region. The investigation is ongoing as of this report.

This is a developing story; we will provide updates as more information becomes available.

🕒 Live updates (7)

resolved Jul 3, 5:59 AM

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring Jul 3, 4:41 AM

Customer workloads are now starting and we're monitoring the affected hosts. Affected Managed Postgres instances will be investigated.

identified Jul 3, 4:21 AM

Power restoration is ongoing and we're making sure the hosts are healthy before starting customer workloads to avoid issues. Customer impact remains and updates to come.

identified Jul 3, 2:59 AM

Power restoration work in a subset of ORD is still in progress and impact remains ongoing for a subset of hosts and some Managed Postgres clusters.

identified Jul 3, 12:54 AM

Our provider has advised us their facilities team is working on restoring the power, we'll provide another update as soon as we learn more.

identified Jul 3, 12:29 AM

We've identified and reported power issues with one of our upstream providers in ORD. We're waiting for an update from our upstream for a resolution. Some Managed Postgres clusters will be unavailable due to placement.

investigating Jul 3, 12:11 AM

We are investigating an issue with one of our upstream providers in ORD. Machines across a subset of hosts may be unreachable or not running correctly. Deploys with machines on these hosts may fail at this time. Some Managed Postgres clusters in ORD region may be unavailable at this time.

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