Fastly incident

Retrospective: Impacted Performance in Ashburn (IAD)

Resolved after 6 minutes, affecting North America and Ashburn (IAD) and 1 more, on May 21, 2026.

resolved May 21, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC

The issue causing temporary unhealthy cache nodes was resolved, and services were fully restored. Our engineers confirmed that all cache nodes returned to a healthy state. Customers may have experienced impact between 21:29 UTC and 21:35 UTC (approximately 6 minutes). All other services and locations were unaffected by this event.

Started
May 21, 2026, 09:29 PM UTC
Resolved
May 21, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC
Duration
6m
Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 09:29 PM UTC

Affected components

North AmericaAshburn (IAD)PlatformNorth AmericaPlatformNorth AmericaPlatformNorth AmericaPlatformNorth America

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 21, 2026, 09:29 PM UTC

    Fastly Engineers detected a performance impacting event affecting the Ashburn (IAD) data center.

  2. resolved May 21, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC

    The issue causing temporary unhealthy cache nodes was resolved, and services were fully restored. Our engineers confirmed that all cache nodes returned to a healthy state. Customers may have experienced impact between 21:29 UTC and 21:35 UTC (approximately 6 minutes). All other services and locations were unaffected by this event.

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