# 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. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/gldd5wjttz37](https://stspg.io/gldd5wjttz37)
- [Company: Convex](https://rewindex.com/company/convex.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:140/hy9xbqhjfgph@e2b4b375d061
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Many Convex backends are down
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**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Database Services, Live Traffic - Function Runtime, Live Traffic - Node.js Runtime
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC

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+ Many databases are currently broken due to an AWS outage in us-east-1
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**8. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2025-10-20 09:29 UTC

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+ AWS has mitigated the issue and services are recovering.
```

**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC

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+ This incident has been resolved.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC | Major incident: Many Convex backends are down (this change) | outage |

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