Twilio: Elevated HTTP 500 Errors for Chat API
AWS outage, Jul 30, 2024 · 12 vendors, 12 incidents
Twilio’s incident started in the same window without naming AWS (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +8 min vs the first vendor naming AWS)
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Mermaid source
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root["AWS<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour<br/>3 vendors, 3 blamed AWS<br/>Xero, Substack, Mapbox"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>3 vendors, 2 blamed AWS<br/>Segment, Hootsuite, Honeycomb"]:::blames
root --> h4
later["Later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed AWS<br/>Heap"]:::blames
root --> later
me["Twilio (this incident)<br/>posted +8 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.
Timeline of updates
- resolved
HTTP 500 errors have been resolved and Chat API is operating normally at this time.
From Twilio’s published incident history: for incidents before Rewindex began polling this status page, only the final update text is available.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.twilio.com (opens in new tab).