Reddit incident

AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services

Minor Ongoing View vendor source →

Reddit is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Desktop Web and Reddit Ads and 1 more component, which began 1d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 1d 1h
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

Affected components

Desktop WebReddit AdsMobile Web

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating some degradation in user experience which are being caused due to AWS issues in us-east-1

  2. identified May 08, 2026, 02:52 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. identified May 08, 2026, 11:12 AM UTC

    We have mitigated issues caused by the AWS us-east-1 outage but continue to monitor as AWS has not yet fully recovered.