# us-east-1 connection errors

- Provider: [PlanetScale](https://down.guide/providers/planetscale)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 15m
- started 2026-03-11 13:04 UTC
- us, us-east-1
- PlanetScale states the impact was 2026-03-11 12:51 to 13:38 UTC (47m)
- id: DWN-5cb7d98aea
- Official page: https://www.planetscalestatus.com/incidents/01KKEFYGZ4EKY099PTJJT0XMWV

## Root cause
> At 12:51 PM UTC and 1:38 PM UTC some Vitess databases in us-east-1 were impacted by connection errors for approximately 5 minutes due to an issue in our edge network.

[Postmortem](https://www.planetscalestatus.com/incidents/01KKEFYGZ4EKY099PTJJT0XMWV)

## Updates from PlanetScale
### 2026-03-11 13:04 UTC: identified
We're investigating an issue with connection errors to Vitess databases in us-east-1.

### 2026-03-11 13:19 UTC: resolved
At 12:51 PM UTC and 1:38 PM UTC some Vitess databases in us-east-1 were impacted by connection errors for approximately 5 minutes due to an issue in our edge network. We resolved the issue and are no longer seeing errors. We will be taking action to protect customers from this issue happening again in the future and apologize for the error.

### 2026-03-11 14:17 UTC: monitoring
We're continuing to monitor. We've updated the status history to reflect the time periods where customers experienced connection issues.

### 2026-03-11 14:52 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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