AWS availability causing degradation in user experiences for various services

Incident Report for Reddit

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.

Posted May 11, 2026 - 07:26 PDT

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Posted May 09, 2026 - 09:32 PDT

We have mitigated issues caused by the AWS us-east-1 outage but continue to monitor as AWS has not yet fully recovered.

Posted May 08, 2026 - 04:12 PDT

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Posted May 07, 2026 - 19:52 PDT

We are currently investigating some degradation in user experience which are being caused due to AWS issues in us-east-1

Posted May 07, 2026 - 17:47 PDT

This incident affected: reddit.com (Desktop Web, Mobile Web) and ads.reddit.com (Reddit Ads).