Outage in Circle

Circle System Outage Due to AWS US-EAST-1 Service Degradation

Resolved Major
October 20, 2025 - Started 1 day ago - Lasted about 19 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

We are currently experiencing a system-wide outage impacting Circle services, due to degraded performance in the AWS US-EAST-1 region. Our infrastructure relies on several AWS services in this region, and the ongoing issues are affecting availability and functionality for end users. Our engineering team is actively monitoring AWS status updates and working on mitigation steps where possible. We will provide updates as soon as we have more information or as the situation evolves. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Components affected
Circle Digital Dollar Accounts API Circle Payouts API

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 9 hours ago - at 10/21/2025 02:32AM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING about 20 hours ago - at 10/20/2025 04:08PM

All Circle services are operational, we will keep monitoring until the AWS incident is fully resolved.

MONITORING about 22 hours ago - at 10/20/2025 02:03PM

We're currently monitoring Circle's service closely, and will provide an update when all Circle service has been restored.

MONITORING about 23 hours ago - at 10/20/2025 01:20PM

The majority of our services have recovered, though some are still experiencing performance degradation. We are actively monitoring the situation and will provide updates as we learn more or as conditions change.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

IDENTIFIED about 24 hours ago - at 10/20/2025 11:57AM

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 10/20/2025 11:07AM

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 10/20/2025 10:37AM

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 10/20/2025 08:11AM

We are currently experiencing a system-wide outage impacting Circle services, due to degraded performance in the AWS US-EAST-1 region. Our infrastructure relies on several AWS services in this region, and the ongoing issues are affecting availability and functionality for end users.

Our engineering team is actively monitoring AWS status updates and working on mitigation steps where possible. We will provide updates as soon as we have more information or as the situation evolves.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

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