DataStax Astra incident

New Database Creation Astra Managed Clusters Failing in AWS

DataStax Astra experienced a minor incident on January 14, 2026 affecting Astra Classic DB, lasting 2h 41m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started: Jan 14, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
Resolved: Jan 14, 2026, 08:28 PM UTC
Duration: 2h 41m
Detected by Pingoru: Jan 14, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

Affected components

Astra Classic DB

Update timeline

investigating Jan 14, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

Database creation for Astra Managed Clusters, formerly known as Astra Classic, is failing in AWS. GCP and Azure are unaffected. All traffic to existing Astra Managed Cluster databases are unaffected. Astra Serverless database creations are unaffected by this incident.
resolved Jan 14, 2026, 08:28 PM UTC

AWS has rolled back changes to their EKS API servers which introduced some incompatibility causing our client API calls to fail. This incident is now resolved and database creation for AWS Astra Managed Clusters is working in all available regions.