PlanetScale Investigating AWS us-east-1 Connectivity Failures

MySQL database service reports major incident affecting single availability zone.

By The Downtime · Oct 9, 2026 · 11:00 PM ·Updated 1 week ago

PlanetScale is investigating connectivity failures scoped to a single availability zone in AWS us-east-1, the company reported. The incident is causing replica delay and connectivity issues and is marked as a major-impact event.

PlanetScale provides MySQL-compatible database services built on Vitess, a database middleware system widely used by enterprises and application developers.

The company began investigating reports of the connectivity failures in the affected AZ. No additional timeline updates have been provided as of this report.

This is a developing story. We will update as PlanetScale provides additional details.

🕒 Live updates (3)

resolved Oct 9, 11:19 PM

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

monitoring Oct 9, 11:13 PM

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.

investigating Oct 9, 10:53 PM

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

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