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No incidents in its feed in the 7 days to Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. Its newest is dated Oct 9, 2026, 22:53 UTC.
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Recent incidents
The newest 2 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to PlanetScale's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.
- AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures
We are investigating reports of connectivity failures scoped to a single AZ in AWS us-east-1 causing replica delay and connectivity issues.
- Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1
We have identified an issue and are investigating branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1.
PlanetScale in the paper
- Sequences and other volatiles in Neki
- PlanetScale is now available on Azure
- What gets TOASTed in Postgres
- TIN v1.0.6: 2-3x faster, with support for stemming
- What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks
- Introducing Dedicated Read Replicas for Postgres
- Designing Neki for performance
- Handling hot shards