Data.lsst.cloud hard down during Patch Thursday today (2026-05-07)

[Edit: done - see comment below]

For those of you folks who use our APIs and don’t cruise past the data.lsst.cloud landing page on a regular page to read the announcement banners, please note we will have a rare extended offline period during our weekly upgrade window later today, and that window will be extended up to 4 hours (so 3pm up to 7pm Pacific).

For the technically minded, this is a full cluster rebuild which (among other things) will allow us to use new features in Google Kubernetes Engine to use resources more efficiently, which will in turn release more resources for the services you use most.

Apologies for the interruption.

… aaaaand done already actually. As the first win from this work, memory in the notebook service’s default (large) option has been doubled to 32 GB, though idle sessions will be culled a bit faster to make sure resources are not eaten up by people who have walked away from their notebooks for more than a day. Have fun!

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