What happens if Railway has an outage?

Railway, a cloud deployment platform, has experienced several outages between November 2025 and May 2026, impacting workloads depending on the affected platform layer, with incidents ranging from deployment queue failures to an 8-hour full platform outage. These outages have highlighted the importance of understanding failure modes and mitigations for teams using Railway for production workloads. The primary causes of these outages were tightly coupled systems that allowed a single failure to cascade into broader outages, with incidents including a webhook surge, cryptominer exploit, DDoS attacks, CDN misconfigurations, and a GCP account suspension. To mitigate risks, teams are advised to maintain off-platform database backups, configure independent status monitoring, and explore alternative platforms like Northflank, which offers 99.99% historical uptime with SLA guarantees and support for multi-cloud deployments across various providers. Northflank allows for more robust deployment options, including BYOC and managed Kubernetes, providing a more resilient solution for teams seeking reduced single-provider risk and higher contractual uptime guarantees.