AssemblyAI change history: Outage on US Async Endpoint

AssemblyAI recorded a critical US Async API outage starting 2026-09-16 20:22 UTC, lasting 1 h 14 min. At peak, roughly 50% of US async transcription requests failed; some successful requests were delayed, while EU and real-time/streaming services were unaffected. The vendor attributed the failure to AWS SQS and reported resolution after implementing a fix.