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Anthropic outage: Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 27, 2026, 09:14 UTC. It was resolved after 42 min.

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Oct 27, 2026, 09:14 UTC
started
Oct 27, 2026, 09:56 UTC
resolved
42 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork
  • claude.ai
  1. resolvedOct 27, 2026, 09:56 UTC

    The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved.

  2. monitoringOct 27, 2026, 09:38 UTC

    A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery.

  3. investigatingOct 27, 2026, 09:14 UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Sonnet 5.5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 27, 2026, 09:19 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 27, 2026, 09:39 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Anthropic have incidents?

Anthropic reported 45 incidents in the last 90 days, 26 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 13m. See Anthropic's uptime and incident history