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Internal data stores are failing

Partial outage Lasted 2h 8m · started · Modal's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Regions
us, us-east-1
Down Index
37of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Modal in us, us-east-1. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 2h 8m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-05-08 00:22 UTC and 2026-05-08 02:30 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Modal 5

  1. update

    We are seeing a lot of internal data stores failing right now and are actively working on fixing them.

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  2. update

    AWS us-east-1 EC2 is currently experiencing an outage, affecting our internal data stores

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  3. update

    We are continuing to work toward mitigation and will share updates as we have them

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  4. update

    All data stores are recovered

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  5. resolved

    All services except queues have recovered. Queues are currently seeing recovery, and fully recovered as of 11:50pm EDT.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-0a97180281

Is Modal still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-08 02:30 UTC. For Modal's live state, see https://down.guide/modal.

How long did it last?

2h 8m, from 2026-05-08 00:22 UTC to 2026-05-08 02:30 UTC, by the times Modal posted.

What was affected?

Modal named in us, us-east-1.

What caused it?

Modal hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Modal's official status page, https://status.modal.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.