Reddit incident
AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services
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Resolved after 3 days 13 hours, affecting Desktop Web and Reddit Ads and 1 more, on May 8, 2026.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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Affected components
Desktop WebReddit AdsMobile Web
Update timeline
- investigating May 08, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC
We are currently investigating some degradation in user experience which are being caused due to AWS issues in us-east-1
- identified May 08, 2026, 02:52 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified May 08, 2026, 11:12 AM UTC
We have mitigated issues caused by the AWS us-east-1 outage but continue to monitor as AWS has not yet fully recovered.
- monitoring May 09, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 11, 2026, 02:26 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
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