Affirm incident

Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in US and CA

Resolved on May 7, 2026, affecting Affirm Status service.

monitoring May 07, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC

THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 23:00 PDT - May 7, 03:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

Started
May 07, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Resolved
May 07, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
May 07, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

Affected components

Affirm Status service

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 24, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 23:00 PDT - May 7, 03:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

  2. monitoring May 07, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 23:00 PDT - May 7, 03:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

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