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Impact to all traffic

Major outage Lasted 2h 55m · started · Affirm's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Components
US, US, US, Canada, Canada, Canada
Regions
ca, us
Down Index
50of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Affirm US, US, US, Canada and 2 more in ca, us. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 2h 55m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-10-20 07:02 UTC and 2025-10-20 09:58 UTC may need a replay.
  • Subscribe to Affirm's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

    https://down.guide/feed?provider=affirm works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Affirm 6

  1. investigating

    We are investigating a sudden drop in all successful traffic to Affirm services in the US and CA

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  2. identified

    Our teams have confirmed that the degradation is a result of a widespread issue impacting a core infrastructure provider. We are monitoring the situation closely and will update in the next 30 minutes.

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  3. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor this issue and will update with pertinent information as the situation develops.

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  4. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor the situation with the impacted core infrastructure partner and are looking for potential mitigations we could attempt on our side. We will update as the situation evolves.

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  5. monitoring

    Our core infrastructure provider has announced a successful mitigation measure and we are now observing recovery on all Affirm services. We will continue to monitor as service health improves

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  6. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-c75bc667d2

Is Affirm still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-10-20 09:58 UTC. For Affirm's live state, see https://down.guide/affirm.

How long did it last?

2h 55m, from 2025-10-20 07:02 UTC to 2025-10-20 09:58 UTC, by the times Affirm posted.

What was affected?

Affirm named US, US, US, Canada and 2 more in ca, us.

What caused it?

Affirm hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Affirm's official status page, https://status.affirm.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.