Changes / Convex / Intermittent Impact from AWS Outage
Convex: Major incident: Intermittent Impact from AWS Outage
Summary
Convex reported a major outage affecting Business, Free & Starter, and Professional, with downtime and elevated errors caused by an AWS Availability Zone issue. It lasted 1 h 49 min, from 2026-05-08 00:16 UTC to 2026-05-08 02:05 UTC. Convex moved affected infrastructure out of the impacted zone and confirmed stable service.
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After: 2026-05-08 00:16 UTC
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After: 2026-05-08 02:05 UTC
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After: Business, Development Services - Business, Development Services - Free & Starter, Development Services - Professional, Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Business, Live Traffic - Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Professional, Professional
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After: We’re experiencing intermittent downtime from an upstream infrastructure provider. Some customer workloads may see brief error spikes while affected jobs are reallocated to healthy hardware and databases fail over. We’re monitoring recovery and will provide updates as mitigation progresses.
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After: AWS has identified an Availability Zone-level issue affecting our infrastructure. Some customer workloads may continue to experience intermittent errors while affected jobs are reallocated to healthy hardware and databases fail over. We’re continuing to monitor recovery and will provide updates as AWS mitigation progresses.
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After: AWS’s Availability Zone-level issue is continuing to cause impact to our infrastructure. Some customers may experience extended downtime or elevated error rates while affected workloads recover on healthy infrastructure. We’re actively working to restore service for impacted customers and will continue to provide updates as recovery progresses.
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After: We’ve moved affected infrastructure out of the impacted AWS Availability Zone, and traffic should now be restored. We’re continuing to monitor for any residual impact while AWS’s recovery progresses.
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After: We’ve mitigated the impact from AWS’s Availability Zone issue, and service has remained stable. We have not observed further node failures or customer impact, so we’re marking this incident as resolved. We’ll continue to monitor AWS’s recovery separately.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: Intermittent Impact from AWS Outage (this change) Convex reported a major outage affecting Business, Free & Starter, and Professional, with downtime and elevated errors caused by an AWS Availability Zone issue. It lasted 1 h 49 min, from 2026-05-08 00:16 UTC to 2026-05-08 02:05 UTC. Convex moved affected infrastructure out of the impacted zone and confirmed stable service. | Major incident |