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AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services

Degraded Lasted 3d 13h · started · Reddit's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Desktop Web, Mobile Web
Regions
us, us-east-1
Down Index
31of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Reddit Desktop Web, Mobile Web in us, us-east-1. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 3d 13h it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-05-08 00:47 UTC and 2026-05-11 14:26 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Reddit 5

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating some degradation in user experience which are being caused due to AWS issues in us-east-1

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  2. identified

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

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  3. identified

    We have mitigated issues caused by the AWS us-east-1 outage but continue to monitor as AWS has not yet fully recovered.

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  4. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

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  5. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Questions about DWN-c5525005cb

Is Reddit still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-11 14:26 UTC. For Reddit's live state, see https://down.guide/reddit.

How long did it last?

3d 13h, from 2026-05-08 00:47 UTC to 2026-05-11 14:26 UTC, by the times Reddit posted.

What was affected?

Reddit named Desktop Web, Mobile Web in us, us-east-1.

What caused it?

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

Where does this come from?

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