DataStax Astra incident
New Database Creation Astra Managed Clusters Failing in AWS
Resolved after 2 hours 41 minutes, affecting Astra Classic DB, on January 14, 2026.
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.
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- 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.
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