AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services
Incident Lifecycle
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
May 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM UTC
Identified
We have mitigated issues caused by the AWS us-east-1 outage but continue to monitor as AWS has not yet fully recovered.
May 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM UTC
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
May 8, 2026 at 2:52 AM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating some degradation in user experience which are being caused due to AWS issues in us-east-1
May 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM UTC
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