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Claude services recovered after an hour of elevated errors and sign-in failures

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Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork and the API experienced errors from 14:00 to 14:59 UTC, with sign-in failures and some unsaved messages reported. The incident shows the breadth of user-facing impact when a shared AI service degrades, though no cause is given.

What

Claude services experienced an outage affecting claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, the Claude API, and related apps.

How

The incident ran from 14:00 to 14:59 UTC; errors, sign-ins, chats, sessions, purchases, and uploads were affected before recovery.

Why it matters

The disruption spanned APIs, coding tools, and user-facing services, highlighting the reliability demands of interconnected AI products.

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