Widespread outage due to AWS outage
Monitoring·Degraded performance

Most Medium services have recovered after the major provider outage. Stats are not yet 100% recovered and will take additional time to catch up. We will provide an update around that tomorrow (21-October) as we continue to monitor the situation closely.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 07:40 PM
(11 hours ago)
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Affected components
Updates

Monitoring

Most Medium services have recovered after the major provider outage. Stats are not yet 100% recovered and will take additional time to catch up. We will provide an update around that tomorrow (21-October) as we continue to monitor the situation closely.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 07:40 PM

Monitoring

AWS service recovery is underway. We are beginning to see some stability and have begin to bring Medium's systems back online. We continue to see elevated 500 errors as a result of lingering outage-related disruption. We are continuing to mitigate as much as possible, and will update again as we have more information available.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 07:10 PM(30 minutes earlier)

Monitoring

There continues to be a disruption because of the ongoing AWS outage. We are closely monitoring the situation and will continue to update as we work to identify remediation.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 05:17 PM(1 hour earlier)

Monitoring

AWS is once again reporting an outage. We are working with AWS to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 02:49 PM(2 hours earlier)

Monitoring

We are seeing some signs of recovery. We are still actively monitoring the situation.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 09:55 AM(4 hours earlier)

Identified

Medium is experiencing an outage due to an outage involving AWS services. We are working with AWS to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 07:58 AM(1 hour earlier)