Incident · Mar 23, 2020

Slower delivery during a surge in traffic

Traffic grew by more than half in three weeks. Delivery slowed at busy hours until new capacity was added.

What happened

Within three weeks in March 2020, traffic across the network grew by fifty-seven percent as people around the world moved their lives indoors and online. Delivery slowed at the busiest hours of the day. Frothly added relays in Amsterdam and Singapore, partners added more, and by early April delivery was back to normal.

Relays involved