Incident report · read from Anthropic's status page

Anthropic incident: Service disruption on Claude services

Resolved after 35 m (16 Aug 2026, 21:58–22:34 UTC), impact critical, affecting Claude Cowork, claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and Claude API (api.anthropic.com).

Timeline

1. 16 Aug 2026 at 21:58 UTC investigating

   We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

2. 16 Aug 2026 at 22:02 UTC investigating

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

3. 16 Aug 2026 at 22:22 UTC monitoring

   A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.

4. 16 Aug 2026 at 22:34 UTC resolved

   The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.

Affected components

• Claude Cowork: major outage for 35 m
• claude.ai: major outage for 35 m
• Claude Code: major outage for 35 m
• Claude Console (platform.claude.com): major outage for 32 m
• Claude API (api.anthropic.com): partial outage for 32 m

Source

Anthropic's own report of this incident, on Anthropic's status page. This page is a record of Anthropic's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 8 Sep 2026 at 16:20 UTC.

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