Later experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Instagram and General Site and 1 more component, lasting 15h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC
Earlier today AWS issues caused disruptions across some Later functionality, including Link in Bio, media uploads, and analytics collection. Services are recovering, and everything is expected to return to normal soon.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 01:50 PM UTC
AWS continues to restore service functionality, and we’re seeing ongoing recovery across Later features including Link in Bio, media uploads, and analytics collection. We’ll continue to monitor until all systems are fully stable.
- resolved Oct 21, 2025, 02:55 AM UTC
AWS reported that they resolved increased error rates and latencies at 3:53 PM PST. We've monitored our platform since then and have confirmed all functionality is restored.