Major Claude Outage Across All Platforms

What happened

From 06:28 UTC on June 23, Anthropic has been experiencing a major Claude outage affecting Claude.ai web, Console, API, Claude Code, and Cowork — across all models. Only Claude for Government is running. Downdetector logged 8,000+ reports.

Context and impact

Largest recent Claude outage and lands just before the expected Anthropic IPO. For teams relying on Claude Code agentic pipelines it caused production downtime. The status page on HN drew 153 score and 179 comments in hours, reopening the single-vendor risk debate for agentic workflows.

Details

• Start: 2026-06-23 06:28 UTC
• Affected: Claude.ai, Console, API, Code, Cowork
• Spared: Claude for Government
• Downdetector: 8,000+ reports
• HN discussion: 179 comments