Storyblocks had 2 outages in the last 2 years totaling 4h 30m of downtime — averaging 0.1 incidents per month.
There were 2 Storyblocks outages since October 20, 2025 totaling 4h 30m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
For approximately 40 minutes, there was degraded performance and increased errors across the Storyblocks website and API. Many pages and API requests returned errors and searches intermittently returned zero results. The issue has been resolved and functionality has returned to normal.
There is an ongoing AWS cloud outage that is causing issues with some of our upstream dependencies. The website is experiencing outages intermittently.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
AWS is recovering and the website has become more stable.
This incident has been resolved.