Claude (Anthropic)
Outage

Claude outage on August 20, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted

On August 20, 2026, Claude (Anthropic) had an outage between 18:32 and 19:42 UTC, about 1.2 h in total. The vendor posted 2 incidents.

Live status

Timeline (UTC)

  1. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors on Google connectors
  2. OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors on Google connectors
  3. OfficialOfficial incident posted: Elevated errors on requests to multiple models
  4. OfficialOfficially resolved: Elevated errors on requests to multiple models

Hourly measurements (UTC)

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Was Claude down on August 20, 2026?

On August 20, 2026, Claude (Anthropic) had an outage between 18:32 and 19:42 UTC, about 1.2 h in total. The vendor posted 2 incidents.

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