BREAKING: Fly.io CRITICAL — Network outage in AMS region [cfnhw68rhk8y]

Fly.io Amsterdam region experiencing widespread network outage. Immediate workarounds and monitoring guide for indie hackers.

BREAKING: Fly.io Network Outage — AMS Region CRITICAL

Status: Identified | Severity: CRITICAL | Affected Region: Amsterdam (AMS)

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What's Down & Who's Affected

Fly.io's Amsterdam region is currently experiencing a network-level outage affecting all services deployed to ams (Europe). This impacts:

All applications with primary or failover deployment in AMS

Database connections to Postgres/Redis in the region

Inbound/outbound traffic from AMS-deployed instances

Estimated impact: Hundreds of indie projects, particularly European users

Status page: https://status.flyio.net (refresh every 60 seconds)

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Immediate Workarounds — Act NOW

Option 1: Route Traffic Away (Fastest)

If you have multi-region deployment: ```bash fly scale count 0 --region ams ``` This immediately stops routing requests to AMS. Traffic automatically fails over to your other regions (if configured).

Option 2: Emergency Scale-Up in Secondary Region

```bash fly scale count 5 --region sjc # or iad, syd, etc. fly scale count 5 --region lhr # London for EU backup ```

Option 3: Enable Fly's HTTP Hedging

If you haven't already, enable request hedging to retry across regions: ```toml

fly.toml

[http_service] hedging_policy = "optimistic" ```

Option 4: Switch DNS Temporarily

Update your DNS to point to a CDN cache (Cloudflare, Bunny, etc.)

Or route to backup infrastructure if you have it

Changes propagate in 30-60 seconds (not waiting for TTL)

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How to Check If You're Affected

Quick diagnostic: ```bash

Check your deployed regions

fly status

Test connectivity to AMS

curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s https://your-app.fly.dev

Monitor region-specific health

fly logs --region ams ```

You're impacted if:

Any app shows AMS as primary region

Your app is ONLY deployed to AMS (single region)

Your error logs show connection timeout or 503 Bad Gateway

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Alternative Hosting to Consider

Quick migration options (if outage extends beyond 2 hours):

Railway.app — Deploy in EU region, similar pricing

Render.com — Frankfurt/London regions available

Hetzner Cloud — Direct VPS, lowest latency for EU

AWS Lightsail �� Frankfurt AZ, familiar tooling

DigitalOcean App Platform — Amsterdam backup (obviously not now)

Don't panic-migrate yet. Give Fly 30-45 minutes. Their team moves fast.

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How to Monitor Recovery

Real-time tracking:

1. Fly Status Page — https://status.flyio.net (auto-refreshes) 2. @flydotio Twitter — Incident updates posted there 3. Monitor your app: ```bash watch -n 5 'fly status' ``` 4. Set up PagerDuty alerts to your regions 5. Check regional health: ```bash fly platform status ```

What to expect: Fly typically publishes resolution ETAs within 15 minutes of incident identification. This one is already identified, so watch for the 15-min mark.

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Action Items (Priority Order)

1. ✅ Check if you're affected (run diagnostics above) 2. ✅ If affected and critical: scale down AMS, scale up secondary region 3. ✅ Monitor recovery on status page 4. ✅ Don't migrate infrastructure yet — let this play out 45 min first 5. ✅ Post-incident: Enable multi-region failover permanently

This will be resolved. Fly has excellent SRE practices. Stay calm, implement workarounds, monitor recovery.

—*Senior Dev, StillNotAThing.com*