Claude suffers outages Aug 16 and 18, degrading multiple models
An Aug 16 disruption affected claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. A second incident Aug 18 degraded Claude Opus 5, resolved after impact from 16:11 to 18:23 UTC.
How this story unfolded
2 days · 0 reports · 6 community posts · from Aug 16
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- Aug 18
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