Major
February 26, 2026
February 2026: Python Infrastructure Outage
Detected
Feb 26, 2026 8:04 PM UTC
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Resolved
Feb 26, 2026 11:28 PM UTC
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Duration
about 3 hours
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.