Convex outage: Many Convex backends are down

Affected components

• Free & Starter

1. resolvedOct 20, 2025, 09:38 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringOct 20, 2025, 09:29 UTC

   AWS has mitigated the issue and services are recovering.

3. investigatingOct 20, 2025, 07:22 UTC

   Many databases are currently broken due to an AWS outage in us-east-1

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Convex'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 Convex have incidents?

Convex reported 5 incidents in the last 90 days, 3 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 57 min. See Convex's uptime and incident history