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AWS outage impacts

Resolved Minor
October 20, 2025 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 24 hours
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Incident Report

We're investigating any impacts from the AWS outage this morning. We identified that some completed payments are incorrectly showing as “processing.” We’re actively correcting the affected statuses. There is no impact to the delivery of payments.
Components affected
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RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 10/21/2025 02:28PM

All systems operational after monitoring overnight. We experienced service degradation on October 20, 2025 due to an AWS infrastructure outage affecting our us-east-1 region. Services and processing has returned to normal as of yesterday afternoon ET. No payments impacted.

MONITORING about 2 months ago - at 10/20/2025 08:52PM

All functionality is operating as normal.
We're still monitoring for any remaining degradation from the AWS outage

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/20/2025 08:11PM

Bank account creation is operational in API, console and onboard.
Pending payroll updates have resumed.
Payment status updates remain delayed.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/20/2025 05:07PM

Bank account creation is unavailable from the API, console and onboard.
Updates in pending payrolls are delayed.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/20/2025 03:26PM

All impacted payments's statuses are now up to date.
We're still investigating for other impacts.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 10/20/2025 02:38PM

We're investigating any impacts from the AWS outage this morning.
We identified that some completed payments are incorrectly showing as “processing.” We’re actively correcting the affected statuses. There is no impact to the delivery of payments.

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Console sandbox unavailability - about 1 month ago
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