Socrative incident

Critical Outage Impacting Core Services

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Socrative experienced a critical incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Core Services and Live Events and 1 more component, lasting 1h 38m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 08:38 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 10:17 AM UTC
Duration
1h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 08:38 AM UTC

Affected components

Core ServicesLive EventsReports

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:38 AM UTC

    Socrative is experiencing issues in the application. Our team is working to resolve these issues. We are sorry for the impact this is having on our end-users and appreciate your patience.

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:57 AM UTC

    There is a critical outage with our Cloud Hosting provider (AWS) impacting availability.

  3. identified Oct 20, 2025, 09:22 AM UTC

    AWS has identified the issue. You can view the details for AWS investigation and recovery efforts live on their status page located at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

  4. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 09:53 AM UTC

    AWS has fixed the issue and we are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding.

  5. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

    The Socrative app appears to be mostly stable now. We are continuing to monitor the application for performance and reliability.

  6. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:17 AM UTC

    Socrative is online and this issue has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience.