# 🛠️ Infrastructure Maintenance: Lab Availability Update **URL:** \ **Category:** Data Engineering\ **Tags:** course-related\ **Created:** [January 5, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346 "2026-01-05T14:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Community-Team](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/community-team/32/136466_2.png) [@Community-Team](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Community-Team)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/1 "2026-01-05T14:12:55Z")
Hello **Data Engineering Learners** , * * * **UPDATE (7 Jan 2025)**: **ALL** labs should be working now. Thank you for your patience * * * We are currently experiencing a service disruption with our external cloud infrastructure providers. Unfortunately, this issue is impacting the majority of our lab environments, and we are aware that **almost all labs are currently not working.** Please be patient as we monitor the situation and work closely with our providers to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. **Current Lab Status:** While most labs are down, the following are confirmed to be working correctly: - **C2W1 Lab 1** - **C3W3 Assignment** ### **Stay Updated:** Please **follow this thread** for real-time updates. We will post an announcement here as soon as the infrastructure is fully restored. Thank you for being a valued member of our community! Best regards, **Community Coordinator** DeepLearning.AI ---
**Author:** ![Community-Team](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/community-team/32/136466_2.png) [@Community-Team](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Community-Team)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/2 "2026-01-05T14:13:06Z")
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**Author:** ![TMosh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/tmosh/32/9321_2.png) [@TMosh](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/TMosh)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/3 "2026-01-05T18:40:59Z")
Note that similar AWS issues are being reported in the “Generative AI with LLM’s” course on Coursera. ---
**Author:** ![basel2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/basel2/32/114199_2.png) [@basel2](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/basel2)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/4 "2026-01-05T19:35:54Z")
for those unable to finish the specialization due to this issue, how will this pause be addressed if their subscription deadline is near? any compensation will be provided? ---
**Author:** ![Abady1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abady1](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Abady1)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/5 "2026-01-05T21:07:04Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![Mohamed\_Ali\_Larbi\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Mohamed\_Ali\_Larbi\_Da](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Mohamed_Ali_Larbi_Da)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/6 "2026-01-05T21:14:18Z")
I am actually continuing with the whole course by skipping labs for now in the data engineering course as I always spend only one month to finish specialization course nothing more. So once labs are fixed I can go back and finish them. Started Data Engineering course on January 1st so hopefully by 31st I can finish it. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Lau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Raymond\_Lau](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Raymond_Lau)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/7 "2026-01-06T13:08:19Z")
I think we should get an extension for the course automatically. It is bad as we often learn during the hoildays. ---
**Author:** ![calobeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/calobeto/32/123049_2.png) [@calobeto](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/calobeto)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/8 "2026-01-06T18:03:31Z")
Hi there, any status of the infrastructure maintenance? ---
**Author:** ![Mubsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/mubsi/32/94983_2.png) [@Mubsi](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Mubsi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/9 "2026-01-07T09:02:37Z")
Hi all, **ALL** labs should be working now. The issue has been addressed. Thanks, Mubsi ---
**Author:** ![Mubsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/mubsi/32/94983_2.png) [@Mubsi](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Mubsi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/infrastructure-maintenance-lab-availability-update/886346/10 "2026-01-07T09:02:47Z")