# Chroma embedding service experiencing intermittent failures

- Provider: [Chroma Cloud](https://down.guide/providers/chroma)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 0m
- started 2026-05-08 01:04 UTC
- Hosted embedding service
- id: DWN-99a7acb9c2
- Official page: https://status.trychroma.com/incident/cmow8565v012ksas210ly33n7

## Updates from Chroma Cloud
### 2026-05-08 01:04 UTC: resolved
Type: Incident
 Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes
 Affected Components: Hosted embedding service
 May 8, 02:49:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 8, 01:04:00 GMT+0 - Identified - Our infrastructure is affected by an outage in AWS: 
We are monitoring the incident and working to restore service.

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