Archived edition · Saturday 31 Oct 2026

Drama index 72/1008 degradedMood: Gusty

Gusty harbour: Fireworks AI degradation

Harbour notice: Fireworks AI has entered unsettled water with Service degradation, while several other vessels remain under watch.

Salesforce recovered; the paperwork has returned to its natural habitat.Salesforce is degraded; commerce has been asked to refresh politely.Cloudflare cleared cache-purge delays after 18 minutes; the edge resumes.Twilio and Kraken shed one incident each; bureaucracy declares partial victory.Coinbase delays Zcash sends and receives; liquidity is taking the scenic route.Fireworks AI remains degraded; the pyrotechnics are strictly infrastructural.

Should you deploy right now?

Ship itAbsolutely not

Deploy only small, reversible changes; the harbour is too busy for heroics.

Deployment inputs: no confirmed deployment incidents · no unconfirmed warnings.

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Coming upPlaid maintenance in progress · since 21:11 UTCPlaid maintenance in progress · since 00:19 UTCStripe maintenance scheduled · 23:00 UTC–03:00 UTC

Next few hours: Plaid maintenance is in progress, with Stripe and Cloudflare maintenance scheduled ahead.

Excuse of the hour — Fireworks AI’s “Service degradation” may serve as an alibi; the schedule is proceeding with ceremonial restraint.

Incident details →

Microsoft 365HazyMicrosoft Admin CenterDetails →

Epic GamesDrizzleEpic Games Store iOS IssueDetails →

Fireworks AIDrizzleService degradationDetails →

FigmaHazyTemporary Disruption with SitesDetails →

OktaMistyDegraded Performance: Delays in Outbound SMS DeliveryDetails →

TwilioDrizzleSilent Network Authentication (SNA) Failure Increase on Indosat in Indonesia+3 moreDetails →

KrakenSlowSUI (SUI) Funding DelaysDetails →

SnowflakeMistyService incidentDetails →

AWS GlobalStillNo active incidentsDetails →

Days since last incident

Atlassian63+days clear

Codex63+days clear DeepSeek63+days clear Grafana Cloud63+days clear Monzo63+days clear PagerDuty63+days clear Spotify63+days clear Upstash63+days clear + 114 more →

All clear · 129 services

Regional

AWS · 9 regions

us-east-1 ap-northeast-1 ap-south-1 ap-southeast-1 eu-central-1 eu-west-1 me-central-1 sa-east-1 us-west-2

Quiet · 37 community services with no reports

Forecast

Fireworks AI is the newest vessel reporting Service degradation, putting a fresh chop across the AI berth. Since the previous edition, Salesforce has cleared its incident and resumed a calm passage. Epic Games has entered the harbour log with Epic Games Store iOS Issue, while Twilio remains marked by several active delivery and call notices. Snowflake, Okta, Microsoft 365, Figma, Kraken, and along with others remain on the watch board. Several status pages are obscured by fog rather than reporting a service condition. The market mood is Fear, which is a poor time for anyone to mistake a calm dashboard for a lighthouse. Keep a sensible distance from the breakwater.

Latest readings

10:40 UTCGuyana: confirmed traffic outage
10:35 UTCSalesforce recovered: Salesforce service incident resolved after 51m
09:45 UTCSalesforce degraded: Salesforce service incident
07:00 UTCCloudflare recovered: Cache purge delays in Qingdao Shandong, China resolved after 18m
06:50 UTCCursor recovered: Multiple services degraded resolved after 45m
06:45 UTCCloudflare degraded: Cache purge delays in Qingdao Shandong, China
06:45 UTCSalesforce recovered: Salesforce service incident resolved after 9h 30m
06:45 UTCCoinbase recovered: Delayed Sends & Receives - Zcash Network resolved after 3h 32m

Warnings in effect

Hold nonessential launches; several active notices are making the harbour lively.

Advice for the day

Check the dependency chain before pushing changes.
Keep rollback plans close to hand.
Treat foggy status pages as fog, not forecasts.
The sea is not impressed by a confident commit message.

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