Is the julia package registry down today?

Tooling Package Management
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Today I’m unable to do anything with the package manager; it cannot download anything from the registry,

(@v1.9) pkg> up
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\rvq\.julia\registries\General.toml`
┌ Error: Some registries failed to update:
│     — C:\Users\rvq\.julia\registries\General.toml — failed to download from https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/ba4924985161e5e39f6fa5bef89450563b41a6d3. Exception: RequestError: HTTP/1.1 301 NA (east) internal redirect trigger (Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 20 seconds) while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/ba4924985161e5e39f6fa5bef89450563b41a6d3     
└ @ Pkg.Registry C:\Users\rvq\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.9.2\share\julia\stdlib\v1.9\Pkg\src\Registry\Registry.jl:510
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Well, not in NL (Europe)… Just tried…

(@v1.9) pkg> up
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\uwefechner\.julia\registries\General.toml`
  No Changes to `C:\Users\uwefechner\.julia\environments\v1.9\Project.toml`
  No Changes to `C:\Users\uwefechner\.julia\environments\v1.9\Manifest.toml`

(@v1.9) pkg>
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The load balancer for US-East region was apparently having some trouble, and had to be restarted around 3 hours ago. The problem should be gone now.

There’s an issue being tracked here to avoid/minimise problems like this in the future.