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**Claude AI Service Disruption Affects Users Worldwide**

On Monday, the AI‑assistant platform Claude experienced a service disruption that prevented users from accessing the service for several hours. The incident, logged on the company’s status page (incident ID zftg3gqkmv18), was attributed to a database connectivity issue that caused a cascade of time‑outs across the application. The outage began at approximately 02:00 UTC and was fully resolved by 10:00 UTC, restoring normal functionality for all users.

The incident was publicly acknowledged by Claude’s engineering team, who provided real‑time updates on the status page and issued a post‑mortem detailing the root cause and corrective actions. The post‑mortem outlined that a misconfigured load balancer had directed traffic to an outdated database cluster, leading to widespread latency and eventual failure. The team has implemented additional monitoring and automated failover procedures to prevent a recurrence. Comments on the Hacker News discussion thread indicate that while the outage was brief, it highlighted the importance of robust infrastructure for AI services that support a growing user base.