Orb: Processing delays
AWS us-east-1 outage, Oct 20, 2025 · 141 vendors, 181 incidents
Orb’s incident started in the same window without naming AWS (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +27 min vs AWS’s own post)
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root["AWS us-east-1<br/>posted 07:11 UTC"]:::root
before["Posted before AWS did<br/>5 vendors, 4 blamed AWS<br/>Salesforce, Descope, Ashby +2"]:::blames
root --> before
h1["Within an hour<br/>18 vendors, 17 blamed AWS<br/>Asana, Firebolt, Monday.com +15"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>30 vendors, 29 blamed AWS<br/>SingleStore, Loops, Buildkite +27"]:::blames
root --> h4
later["Later<br/>45 vendors, 44 blamed AWS<br/>RudderStack, Airbyte, Unbounce +42"]:::blames
root --> later
p0["Twilio<br/>posted +15 min"]:::blames
root --> p0
k0["BigCommerce<br/>+2 h 46 min"]:::hop2
p0 -->|"blamed Twilio"| k0
p1["Webflow<br/>posted +4 h 37 min, did not name AWS"]:::timing
root -.-> p1
k1["Rootly<br/>+10 h 23 min"]:::hop2
p1 -->|"blamed Webflow"| k1
p2["Baseten<br/>posted +4 min"]:::blames
root --> p2
k2["Zed<br/>+26 h 20 min"]:::hop2
p2 -->|"blamed Baseten"| k2
me["Orb (this incident)<br/>posted +27 min"]:::me
root -.->|"same window"| meFull event: timeline, evidence and all vendors →
Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Affected components: AnalyticsAPI - AnalyticsAPI - ReadsReadsAPI - WritesWritesReal-time alerting
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are currently investigating API degradation. This seems to be related to an upstream cloud provider outage, and we are closely monitoring.
- investigating
We are continuing to see and investigate errors.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate errors.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue. We apologize for the disruption to impacted customers.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate the issue.
- investigating
API services are broadly recovered; we're continuing to monitor the situation.
- investigating
We are seeing recovery on most API endpoints - some analytics endpoints may still be degraded. We are continuing to work with upstream providers to resolve. Note also that consumption from payment processing may be delayed; we are working through the event backlog here.
- investigating
We are failing over affected services gradually for our analytics APIs, which we expect to lead to errors in order to assist with full recovery.
- identified
We're continuing to investigate, and working through usage calculation delays.
- identified
We are working with our cloud provider to bring on more capacity to help with operational delays.
- identified
We are continuing to investigate this issue. We are working with our cloud provider to bring on more capacity to help with operational delays.
- identified
We are continuing to work with our cloud provider to bring on more capacity to help with operational delays.
- identified
We are continuing to work with our cloud provider to bring on more capacity to help with operational delays. Asynchronous processing may be delayed, including the sending of webhooks.
- identified
We are continuing to work with our cloud provider to bring on more capacity to help with operational delays. API calls may not reflect the latest usage data as we work through this. Asynchronous processing may be delayed, including the sending of webhooks and the receipt of information from your payment gateway connection. We are working diligently on our side to bring these up to date.
- identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring
We are seeing significant recovery as capacity is coming back online.
- monitoring
Most async processing is operational, including webhooks and receipt of information from your payment gateway connection. We are continuing to monitor remaining recovery of usage calculations and alerting pipelines.
- resolved
All systems are operational.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).