# Convex: Many Convex backends are down

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC · Resolved: 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC · Duration: 2.3 h
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Live Traffic - Node.js Runtime, Free & Starter, Live Traffic - Database Services, Live Traffic - Function Runtime
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/gldd5wjttz37](https://stspg.io/gldd5wjttz37)
- [Company: Convex](https://rewindex.com/company/convex.md)

## 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)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC: Many databases are currently broken due to an AWS outage in us-east-1
- **monitoring** 2025-10-20 09:29 UTC: AWS has mitigated the issue and services are recovering.
- **resolved** 2025-10-20 09:38 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2025-10-20 07:22 UTC: [Major incident: Many Convex backends are down](https://rewindex.com/change/i882b1a490d6e64.md)


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