Claude was down yesterday for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a “529 Overloaded” message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. It is currently up according to this:
Claude Status
But you should check to see if it is up for you. There’s also a story on this here:
Claude AI Recovering After Widespread Outage on Wednesday – CNET
Commenting on this story is Jamie Beckland, CPO at APIContext:
“AI has gone from an experimental productivity tool to an essential part of the working day with remarkable speed. When Claude fails, it no longer means someone cannot play with a chatbot—it can stop developers writing code, support teams answering customers and automated workflows completing critical tasks.
That makes Anthropic’s repeated availability problems over recent months increasingly consequential. Persistent outages risk weakening Anthropic’s position in those enterprise architecture decisions.
By observing our public monitoring, it becomes clear that this is not solely an Anthropic problem. No AI provider is perfectly reliable when subjected to today’s extraordinary and unpredictable demand. Enterprises therefore need to treat AI services like any other critical third-party infrastructure: monitor them independently, understand their real-world performance, and build fallbacks so the failure of one model does not bring an entire workflow to a halt.”
If AI is part of your workflow, you should take outages into account. Otherwise you might find yourself high and dry so to speak.
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Claude Was Down But It Is Back Up At The Moment
Claude was down yesterday for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a “529 Overloaded” message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. It is currently up according to this:
Claude Status
But you should check to see if it is up for you. There’s also a story on this here:
Claude AI Recovering After Widespread Outage on Wednesday – CNET
Commenting on this story is Jamie Beckland, CPO at APIContext:
“AI has gone from an experimental productivity tool to an essential part of the working day with remarkable speed. When Claude fails, it no longer means someone cannot play with a chatbot—it can stop developers writing code, support teams answering customers and automated workflows completing critical tasks.
That makes Anthropic’s repeated availability problems over recent months increasingly consequential. Persistent outages risk weakening Anthropic’s position in those enterprise architecture decisions.
By observing our public monitoring, it becomes clear that this is not solely an Anthropic problem. No AI provider is perfectly reliable when subjected to today’s extraordinary and unpredictable demand. Enterprises therefore need to treat AI services like any other critical third-party infrastructure: monitor them independently, understand their real-world performance, and build fallbacks so the failure of one model does not bring an entire workflow to a halt.”
If AI is part of your workflow, you should take outages into account. Otherwise you might find yourself high and dry so to speak.
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