Astronomer experienced a major incident on January 16, 2026 affecting Deployment Management, lasting 7h 20m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 16, 2026, 04:59 PM UTC
Creation of AWS clusters is failing. At the moment, we do not think this impacts existing clusters, but we are working on getting confirmation for this.
- investigating Jan 16, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- investigating Jan 16, 2026, 06:08 PM UTC
We have confirmed that existing clusters are unaffected. We are testing a potential workaround to create AWS clusters.
- identified Jan 16, 2026, 08:22 PM UTC
We have identified the root cause and are working on releasing a fix.
- identified Jan 16, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC
The fix has been released and verified and it will become available across Astronomer infrastructure over the next hour.
- identified Jan 17, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC
All system functionality has been restored and is operational.
- resolved Jan 17, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.