Anthropic experienced a service disruption on August 16 affecting five products: claude.ai, Claude Console, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The incident began at 21:58 UTC with login failures, escalating four minutes later to degraded performance across the platform. The disruption touched the full serving stack, including the API carrying third-party and enterprise workloads. Anthropic deployed a fix at 22:22 UTC and marked the incident resolved at 22:34 UTC.
Users experienced sign-in failures, interfaces that would not load, and requests that stalled or returned errors during the outage. BleepingComputer observed an error page when opening claude.ai and tracked several hundred user reports on an outage monitoring platform. All six components on Anthropic's status page, including Claude for Government, showed as operational after the fix.
The August 16 disruption marks the fourteenth incident logged on Anthropic's status page in the past two weeks, with the previous day alone producing multiple issues including elevated errors on Claude Fable 5, a roughly 24-minute disruption to the Claude API, and an invalid certificate problem affecting status.stle.com.