Check incident

AWS outage impacts

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Check experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2025 affecting API and Console and 1 more component, lasting 23h 50m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 02:38 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2025, 02:28 PM UTC
Duration
23h 50m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 02:38 PM UTC

Affected components

APIConsoleOnboardPayments

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 02:38 PM UTC

    We're investigating any impacts from the AWS outage this morning. We identified that some completed payments are incorrectly showing as “processing.” We’re actively correcting the affected statuses. There is no impact to the delivery of payments.

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 03:26 PM UTC

    All impacted payments's statuses are now up to date. We're still investigating for other impacts.

  3. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

    Bank account creation is unavailable from the API, console and onboard. Updates in pending payrolls are delayed.

  4. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:11 PM UTC

    Bank account creation is operational in API, console and onboard. Pending payroll updates have resumed. Payment status updates remain delayed.

  5. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 08:52 PM UTC

    All functionality is operating as normal. We're still monitoring for any remaining degradation from the AWS outage

  6. resolved Oct 21, 2025, 02:28 PM UTC

    All systems operational after monitoring overnight. We experienced service degradation on October 20, 2025 due to an AWS infrastructure outage affecting our us-east-1 region. Services and processing has returned to normal as of yesterday afternoon ET. No payments impacted.