Outage report · Major outage

Railway outage on Mar 17, 2026

Suspected hardware failure affecting a subset of deployments in EU West

SeverityMajor outage

StartedMar 17, 2026, 10:57UTC

ResolvedMar 17, 2026, 12:40UTC

Duration1h 43m

What happened

Railway reported a major outage starting Mar 17, 2026, 10:57 UTC. It was marked resolved at Mar 17, 2026, 12:40 UTC.

The incident lasted 1h 43m from first report to resolution.
It was the 3rd longest of 3 significant outages Railway reported in the 12 months up to it.
Railway had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
3 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Railway

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour and 43 minutes Affected Components: EU West (Metal / Amsterdam, Netherlands) Mar 17, 12:40:21 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Mar 17, 12:34:08 GMT+0 - Monitoring - All affected infrastructure is progressively recovering. If your service has not automatically recovered, please try redeploying. We are continuing to monitor. Mar 17, 12:20:11 GMT+0 - Identified - We have identified the issue as a hardware failure on a single host in EU West. The affected infrastructure is being brought back online and workloads are recovering, some services have already been restored. Services with databases and attached storage may take a bit longer to fully come back. We will continue to provide updates as recovery progresses. Mar 17, 11:26:26 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently investigating this incident. If your service does not have a volume attached, please try re-deploying it Mar 17, 10:57:35 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are aware of an issue a

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