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Claude outage: Elevated errors on Claude Code and Claude Cowork

Claude reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 28, 2026, 17:22 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 59m.

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Aug 28, 2026, 17:22 UTC
started
Aug 28, 2026, 20:21 UTC
resolved
2h 59m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork

Timeline

updates from Claude's status page ↗
  1. resolvedAug 28, 2026, 20:21 UTC

    The issue affecting Claude Cowork and Claude Code on the web has been resolved.

  2. monitoringAug 28, 2026, 18:21 UTC

    A mitigation has been applied for the issue affecting Claude Cowork and Claude Code on the web, and we are monitoring for recovery. Sessions that disconnected earlier can be retried

  3. identifiedAug 28, 2026, 17:22 UTC

    We have identified an issue with an upstream cloud provider affecting Claude Cowork and Claude Code on the web. Some sessions may fail to start or disconnect mid-task; affected sessions can be retried. We are in contact with the provider and will provide an update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Claude's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Claude have incidents?

Claude reported 85 incidents in the last 90 days, 32 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 7m. See Claude's uptime and incident history

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Claude outage on Aug 28, 2026: Elevated errors on Claude Code and Claude Cowork · APIStatus.watch