Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant […]

Neon

Neon experienced significant stability issues in May and June 2025 due to unexpected 5x increase in database creation and 50x increase in branch creation driven by agentic AI platforms. May incidents were caused by hitting Kubernetes scaling limits before their horizontal scaling solution (Cells) was ready. June problems stemmed from control plane database scaling issues under massive branch creation load. The company has implemented Cells architecture, improved rate limiting, updated testing scenarios, and plans to isolate database management into a separate service to prevent future incidents.

A Recap on May/June Stability