Amp outage history

Biggest Amp outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

1. Sep 1, 2026: Amp unavailable due to Google Cloud incident 3 hours 38 min · rated "Critical"
2. Aug 10, 2026: Thread creation is failing 2 hours 48 min · rated "Critical"
3. Sep 6, 2026: Thread creation and connection failures 6 hours 10 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller Amp incident

Minor and short incidents from the Amp status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

• Oct 21, 2026, 22:35 UTC · Thread creation and agent failures

  17 minutes · rated "Major"

  "The issues are resolved. We're continuing to root-cause the incidents today, which are related. Most threads were unaffected during this outage, but affected threads could have taken ~2-3min to reconnect."

• Oct 21, 2026, 16:38 UTC · Inference requests failing

  28 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "One our storage nodes saturated and was not replaced fast enough to keep up with ongoing traffic. We have identified the issue and mitigated it. We are working on a fix to prevent this in the future."

• Oct 21, 2026, 12:07 UTC · Thread creation and agent failures

  23 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "Creating threads and running inference is now working as expected"

• Oct 6, 2026, 15:55 UTC · Slow loading on ampcode.com

  4 hours 6 min · marked as no impact

  "We've resolved the increased load, and latencies are back down to normal levels. Apologies if you saw some slowdowns!"

• Oct 1, 2026, 03:27 UTC · Agents fail to start for some threads

  32 minutes · rated "Major"

  "This issue is resolved."

September 2026

• Sep 25, 2026, 23:00 UTC · ChatGPT subscriptions failing

  1 hour 26 min · rated "Major"

  "OpenAI has resolved the Codex outage"

• Sep 24, 2026, 07:59 UTC · Orbs are failing to start

  45 minutes · rated "Major"

  "Orbs and threads are working again."

• Sep 18, 2026, 22:54 UTC · Amp won't load when logged in

  18 minutes · rated "Major"

  "Our authentication provider has recovered service."

• Sep 9, 2026, 21:37 UTC · Some threads are unavailable on the web

  43 minutes · rated "Major"

  "We've confirmed the issue is resolved and has been for the last 25 minutes."

• Sep 8, 2026, 11:18 UTC · Thread creation and connection failures

  42 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "This morning's incident left 369 user connections to threads in a degraded state. They are now restored and working."

• Sep 5, 2026, 17:24 UTC · Slow to connect to threads

  31 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "A confluence of a few different deploys caused our load balancers started misbehaving and overloading a few of our servers. We've adjusted the balancing so if you saw threads failing, they should all be healthy now."

• Sep 4, 2026, 20:44 UTC · Intermittent thread failures

  21 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We had a deployment out with a bug that caused our server to crash in some situations, causing intermittent errors while using amp. We've rolled back and the errors have dropped to zero. Sorry for the noise!"

• Sep 3, 2026, 15:02 UTC · ChatGPT subscription failures

  1 hour 56 min · rated "Major"

  "OpenAI has resolved their incident, and ChatGPT subs appear to be working well again."

• Sep 3, 2026, 01:35 UTC · Orbs failing to start

  59 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Orb creation rates have fully stabilised, and all systems are normal. We're sorry for the interruption, and we'll continue to investigate ways to make Amp more resilient to this going forward."

August 2026

• Aug 26, 2026, 20:37 UTC · 500 errors from ampcode.com

  17 minutes · rated "Major"

  "The browser application was crashing with a 500 error after page load. We've rolled back the change and a hard refresh should fix any remaining issues."

• Aug 25, 2026, 01:05 UTC · Amp application is unreachable

  18 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "We found the source of the issue (a very inefficient PostgreSQL query) and have rolled back and have deployed a fix for future deploys."

• Aug 20, 2026, 17:04 UTC · Elevated errors on OpenAI-backed models

  31 minutes · rated "Major"

  "OpenAI requests are completing successfully again. We're still working with OpenAI to identify the underlying cause of the prompt-flagging errors."

• Aug 20, 2026, 12:46 UTC · Orbs are failing to start up

  1 hour 5 min · marked as no impact

  "Orbs that were created in a ~1hr window failed to start up. We restarted them. No data was lost. After a fix rolled out, new orbs would start up without problems."

• Aug 16, 2026, 10:14 UTC · Amp application is unavailable

  16 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "We found the source of the high load on our database and have resolved the issue."

• Aug 16, 2026, 04:00 UTC · Slow/failed thread creation and archiving

  1 hour 37 min · rated "Minor"

  "This issue has been resolved."

• Aug 14, 2026, 16:06 UTC · Thread loading failures

  7 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We've rolled back the bad change and everything is healthy again. Sorry for the blip."

• Aug 13, 2026, 19:07 UTC · Orb executors failing to start

  2 hours 47 min · rated "Major"

  "All new orbs are operational."

• Aug 11, 2026, 12:24 UTC · Some Amp Runners Cannot Connect

  2 hours 3 min · marked as no impact

  "We've repaired all the threads which were unable to connect because of this incident, so all known issues have been resolved. Thanks for your patience!"

• Aug 7, 2026, 06:17 UTC · Thread creation is slow and times out

  3 hours 21 min · marked as no impact

  "A bug in undici, the HTTP library bundled with Node.js, prevented new outgoing requests from being dispatched while a long-lived streaming request was open on the same HTTP/2 connection."

• Aug 4, 2026, 11:36 UTC · Threads are failing to connect

  31 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "Threads are now connecting normally."