Outage in Python
Python Infrastructure Outage
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
Python experienced a major infrastructure outage lasting 3.4 hours that affected bugs.python.org, us.pycon.org, and python.org (both CDN and backends). The root cause was identified as an erroneous scaling operation that impacted application workloads, and all services were subsequently restored and monitored for full recovery.
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Components affected
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
2 days ago - at 02/26/2026 11:26PM
The incident has been resolved.
INVESTIGATING
2 days ago - at 02/26/2026 08:40PM
The root cause has been identified as an erroneous scaling operation that affected some application workloads. All services have been restored and are coming back online. We are monitoring to confirm full recovery.
INVESTIGATING
2 days ago - at 02/26/2026 08:04PM
We are currently investigating this issue
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