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Supabase is down: Project Actions Failing Across Multiple Regions. Immediate workarounds for indie hackers.

BREAKING: Supabase Project Actions Failing Across Multiple Regions

Status: Investigating | Severity: MAJOR | Updated: NOW

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What's Down & Who's Affected

Supabase is experiencing widespread failures in project-level operations across US-EAST-1, EU-WEST-1, and ASIA-SOUTHEAST-1 regions. Affected operations:

Database migrations and deployments

Function deployments

Auth configuration changes

Storage bucket management

Real-time subscription initialization

API secret rotations

Read operations are functional. Your existing data is safe and accessible via REST/GraphQL APIs. This is a control plane issue, not a data loss event.

If your app relies on dynamic project configuration changes, you're impacted *right now*.

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Immediate Workarounds (Do This Now)

1. Route Around the Control Plane

Use pre-configured API keys and connection strings (already in your .env)

Your apps will continue functioning with existing credentials

Avoid any dashboard configuration changes until recovery

2. Defer Non-Critical Changes

Hold off on migrations, function deploys, and auth config updates

If you *must* deploy: use direct PostgreSQL connections via psql CLI with your connection string

Example: psql "postgresql://user:pass@db.xxx.supabase.co:5432/postgres" → run migrations directly

3. Authentication Workaround

Existing auth sessions remain valid

Use session-based auth; avoid new OAuth flows until dashboard recovers

If needed, create users directly via SQL: INSERT INTO auth.users (email, encrypted_password, ...) VALUES (...)

4. Disable Real-Time Temporarily

If real-time subscriptions are failing, remove .on('*', ...) handlers temporarily

Your app will function in standard polling mode

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How to Check If Your Project Is Affected

Dashboard Test: 1. Log into app.supabase.com 2. Navigate to any project → try editing a table schema 3. If you see "Action failed" or timeout errors, you're affected

API Test: ```bash curl https://api.supabase.co/v1/projects \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" ``` If this times out or returns 502/503, control plane is down.

Your App Test:

Run SELECT * FROM your_table LIMIT 1 via your app's API client

If this works, read operations are fine; it's project actions that are failing

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Alternative Tools to Consider

For this incident only:

Direct PostgreSQL management: psql CLI for schema changes

Temporary auth workaround: Firebase Auth (easy migration path)

Function alternatives: Vercel Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers (no deployment needed if pre-built)

Real-time alternative: Pusher, Socket.io (requires app changes)

Note: We're not recommending permanent switches—Supabase will recover. These are 4-6 hour holding patterns.

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Monitoring Recovery

Official Status:

Check status.supabase.com (updates every 30 min)

Watch for "All Systems Operational" announcement

Community Signals:

StillNotAThing Discord: #supabase-incidents

Hacker News: Search "Supabase down"

Twitter: Follow @supabase for updates

Self-Check: Retry your dashboard action every 15 minutes. When it succeeds, recovery is underway.

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Bottom Line

Your data is safe. Your apps work. You cannot deploy or configure right now. Use SQL directly or defer changes 4-6 hours. Monitor status.supabase.com.

We'll update this as Supabase reports progress.