Claude Is Down
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Service Outage
Claude code not working, claude.ai can't login with 503 error, etc.
Claude AI is experiencing a service outage, with users reporting 503 errors and inability to login, sparking discussion about the reliability of the service and Anthropic's handling of issues.
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https://claude.ai and Claude Code both.
Claude code appears to retry 10 times! They are probably getting DDoSed by all the clients which sounds like a total mess.
I don't envy the people fixing this right now.
Edit: working in Canada now?
Same in UK;
API Error (503 upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection timeout) · Retrying in 38 seconds… (attempt 7/10) API Error (503 upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: remote connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: Connection refused) · Retrying in 34 seconds… (attempt 8/10)
API Error: terminated
https://claude.ai/images/icons/chrome-app.svg returns "Rate exceeded." and 429 Too Many Requests status