BREAKING: Supabase Access Issues in Brazil 🇧🇷 – Workarounds Inside

Supabase experiencing regional access issues from some providers in Brazil. Immediate workarounds and monitoring steps for affected indie hackers.

BREAKING: Supabase Regional Access Issues in Brazil

What's Down & Who's Affected

Supabase is currently experiencing access issues from specific internet providers in Brazil. The incident is under active monitoring by their team.

Impact scope:

Users connecting from Brazil through affected ISPs may experience connection timeouts or failures

Projects hosted in non-Brazil regions may still be affected if your primary user base connects from Brazil

Real-time subscriptions and REST API calls are the most vulnerable operations

Database connections may fail intermittently rather than completely

Status: Monitoring (not fully resolved yet)

Immediate Workarounds – Do This Now

1. Implement Client-Side Retry Logic

```javascript const retryWithBackoff = async (fn, maxRetries = 3) => { for (let i = 0; i < maxRetries; i++) { try { return await fn(); } catch (error) { if (i === maxRetries - 1) throw error; await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, Math.pow(2, i) * 1000)); } } }; ```

2. Switch to VPN/Proxy Temporarily

Ask affected Brazilian users to route through a VPN service. This bypasses the problematic provider routes.

3. Use Regional Fallback Endpoints

If you have multiple Supabase projects in different regions, route Brazilian traffic to a non-Brazil endpoint temporarily.

4. Cache Aggressively

Implement local caching for critical data to reduce real-time dependency: ```javascript const cachedQuery = (key, fn, ttl = 300000) => { const cached = localStorage.getItem(key); if (cached && Date.now() - JSON.parse(cached).timestamp < ttl) { return Promise.resolve(JSON.parse(cached).data); } return fn().then(data => { localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify({data, timestamp: Date.now()})); return data; }); }; ```

5. Queue Write Operations

Store mutations locally and sync when connection restores using service workers or IndexedDB.

How to Check If You're Affected

1. Monitor Supabase Status Page: https://status.supabase.com 2. Check Your Logs: Look for connection timeouts in your browser console and server logs 3. Geographic Test: Have someone in Brazil (or use a Brazil VPN) test your app 4. Specific Provider Check: Affected providers include some major Brazilian ISPs—check your user reports for ISP patterns 5. Network Inspector: In DevTools, check if API requests to your Supabase endpoint are timing out

Alternative Tools to Consider (Short-term Only)

Firebase Realtime Database – Quick switch for real-time data

MongoDB Atlas – If you need flexible schema

PlanetScale (MySQL) – PostgreSQL-compatible alternative

Neon – PostgreSQL serverless with better failover

*Note: Switch only if outage extends beyond 4 hours.*

Monitoring Recovery

1. Subscribe to Supabase Status Updates: https://status.supabase.com/subscribe 2. Monitor Latency: Use performance.measure() to track Supabase response times 3. Set Up Alerts: Use your error tracking tool (Sentry, LogRocket) to alert on Supabase failures 4. Track Geography: Monitor which regions recover first 5. Check Statuspage Timeline: Supabase posts updates every 30 minutes during active incidents

Bottom Line

This is regional and partial—not a global outage. Implement retry logic now and monitor the status page. Most indie projects can operate with degraded functionality for 2-4 hours. Don't panic-migrate unless you absolutely need to.

Stay updated. We'll post when this resolves.