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Convex: Many Convex backends are down

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (2.3 h)3 updatesSource: stspg.io (opens in new tab)
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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Affected components: Live Traffic - Node.js RuntimeFree & StarterLive Traffic - Database ServicesLive Traffic - Function Runtime

Timeline of updates

  1. investigating

    Many databases are currently broken due to an AWS outage in us-east-1

  2. monitoring

    AWS has mitigated the issue and services are recovering.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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