# npm: Intermittent Failures Impacting npm Publish

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-09-03 21:42 UTC · Resolved: 2026-09-03 23:21 UTC · Duration: 1.6 h
- Updates: 4 · Affected components: Package publishing, Package installation
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/n9gnn5fgb3x0](https://stspg.io/n9gnn5fgb3x0)
- [Company: npm](https://rewindex.com/company/npm.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [AWS us-west-2 outage, Sep 3, 2026: 20 vendors, 20 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-09-03-aws-us-west-2)
- This incident started in the same window without naming AWS (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted −8 min vs AWS’s own post)

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["AWS us-west-2<br/>posted 21:49 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before AWS did<br/>3 vendors, 3 blamed AWS<br/>Materialize, Temporal Cloud, Semgrep"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed AWS<br/>Dropbox, Teleport, Wiz, SurveyMonkey"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  me["npm (this incident)<br/>posted −8 min"]:::me
  root -.->|"same window"| me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-09-03 21:42 UTC: We are currently investigating this issue.
- **investigating** 2026-09-03 22:17 UTC: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- **monitoring** 2026-09-03 22:41 UTC: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- **resolved** 2026-09-03 23:21 UTC: This incident has been resolved.


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/b6958bgj1sm3 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/b6958bgj1sm3.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/npm/incidents/b6958bgj1sm3 · Generated 2026-10-19T23:16:01.190Z