Claude Seems Down
Users on Hacker News are reporting widespread downtime for Anthropic's Claude services, including the website, API, and desktop application. The outage appears to be related to authentication service failures.
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Widespread outages of major AI platforms demonstrate the increasing reliance of developers and businesses on centralized AI infrastructure.
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Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector
Status page reports as down: https://status.claude.com/
Use Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.
My bad, I asked it to do something for me that really must have blown its mind
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324068
Large volume of user generated reports https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
Seeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.
Looks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?
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