Affirm incident
Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in the UK
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 24, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 16:00 - 19:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:46 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 4 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the UK region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 1 minute. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.
- monitoring May 06, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6 , 16:00 - 19:00 PDT Apr 24 , 16:46 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 4 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the UK region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 1 minute. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.
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