# Transient load-balancer issue in us-west-1

- Provider: [Ably](https://down.guide/providers/ably)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Operational
- lasted 0m
- started 2026-10-30 16:48 UTC
- US West (Northern California)
- us, us-west-1
- Ably states the impact was 2026-10-30 16:27 to 16:35 UTC (8m)
- id: DWN-231722983f
- Official page: https://stspg.io/jkcm906kmqg8

## Updates from Ably
### 2026-10-30 16:48 UTC: resolved
Between 16:27-16:35 UTC, connection attempts to us-west-1 had an ~18% chance of being refused with an error due to a network load balancer issue. An Ably SDK will have been automatically retried to a fallback region, so an end user will have experienced no impact other than a slight increase in connection establishment latency.

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