Anthropic incident
Elevated errors on Claude Code and Claude Cowork
Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 28, 2026 affecting Claude Code and Claude Cowork, lasting 2h 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Claude CodeClaude Cowork
Update timeline
- identified Aug 28, 2026, 05:22 PM 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.
- monitoring Aug 28, 2026, 06:21 PM 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
- resolved Aug 28, 2026, 08:21 PM UTC
The issue affecting Claude Cowork and Claude Code on the web has been resolved.