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Outage in Tailscale

Admin console and pkgs.tailscale.com are unavailable

Resolved Major
July 16, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 5 hours

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Tailscale's admin console (login.tailscale.com) and package server (pkgs.tailscale.com) were unavailable for approximately 4.9 hours due to an Amazon CloudFront outage causing 504 errors. Tailscale deployed a fix for the admin console while pkgs.tailscale.com remained down until CloudFront recovered. Both services were restored and confirmed operational by the end of the incident.

We are aware of reports of the admin console and pkgs.tailscale.com "pkgs.tailscale.com": http://pkgs.tailscale.com not being available for users, and we are investigating the scope of the issue.

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MONITORING 1 day ago - at 07/16/2026 10:29AM

The admin console and pkgs.tailscale.com "pkgs.tailscale.com": http://pkgs.tailscale.com are now both operational. We are monitoring the situation for any further degradation in service.

IDENTIFIED 2 days ago - at 07/16/2026 09:03AM

We have identified that Amazon Cloudfront is experiencing issues: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status, and is the cause of the 504 errors seen on the admin console and pkgs.tailscale.com "pkgs.tailscale.com": http://pkgs.tailscale.com.
Our teams have rolled out a fix for the admin console.
pkgs.tailscale.com "pkgs.tailscale.com": http://pkgs.tailscale.com is still unavailable at this time.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 07/16/2026 08:13AM

We are aware of reports of the admin console and pkgs.tailscale.com "pkgs.tailscale.com": http://pkgs.tailscale.com not being available for users, and we are investigating the scope of the issue.

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