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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-DF764445

Perplexity outage on October 20, 2025

Major severityResolved45 minAI Tools
Started · UTC
Oct 20, 06:54 AM
271d ago
Resolved · UTC
Oct 20, 07:39 AM
271d ago
Duration
45 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
80.00
0 snapshots
// User impact

Perplexity users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI Tools service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 45 min. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Type: Incident Duration: 3 hours and 2 minutes Affected Components: Website, API Oct 20, 06:54:10 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are investigating elevated error rates on the Perplexity website. Oct 20, 07:32:36 GMT+0 - Identified - We are experiencing an outage related to an AWS operational issue. [https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status.](https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status) We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident. Oct 20, 09:24:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We can confirm this is related to an AWS service disruption. We are actively working with AWS on a resolution. We will c

Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for An issue affecting the stability of the website has been detected.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.

// Signals by source0 sources

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

80.00

The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 07:39 AM UTC.