Outage postmortems

Independent analysis of major cloud and SaaS outages, with cross-provider cascade data the vendors themselves can't publish.

Postmortem May 13, 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 outage on May 12, with two downstream providers catching it in real time

Anthropic reported elevated errors across Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork on May 12. The incident lasted 19 minutes.

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Postmortem May 13, 2026 · 1 min read

Spotify down on May 12, 2026: 7 hours, 30,000 Downdetector reports, no upstream named

Spotify reported an incident at 16:54 UTC on May 12. The fix took just over six hours. Downdetector peaked above 30,000 reports across mobile, desktop, and consoles.

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Postmortem May 12, 2026 · 1 min read

Datadog lost 6+ hours of telemetry processing on May 8, and blamed AWS

Datadog reported an incident at 23:39 UTC on May 7. The fix took 14 hours. Datadog linked AWS's health dashboard in ten separate updates over the following 6 hours.

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