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Convex: Major incident: Many Convex backends are down
Summary
Many Convex backends were down in a major outage affecting Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Database Services, Live Traffic - Function Runtime, and Live Traffic - Node.js Runtime. It lasted 2 h 16 min, from 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC to 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC. Convex attributed broken databases to an AWS outage in us-east-1; AWS mitigated the issue before resolution.
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After: 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC
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After: Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Database Services, Live Traffic - Function Runtime, Live Traffic - Node.js Runtime
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After: Many databases are currently broken due to an AWS outage in us-east-1
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After: AWS has mitigated the issue and services are recovering.
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After: This incident has been resolved.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: Many Convex backends are down (this change) Many Convex backends were down in a major outage affecting Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Database Services, Live Traffic - Function Runtime, and Live Traffic - Node.js Runtime. It lasted 2 h 16 min, from 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC to 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC. Convex attributed broken databases to an AWS outage in us-east-1; AWS mitigated the issue before resolution. | Major incident |