Claude partial outage

Anthropic’s Claude experienced a partial outage across Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork, causing elevated errors, sign-in failures, disrupted chat/session creation, and interruptions to file uploads and purchases. For CIOs and technology leaders, the incident underscores the operational risk of depending on a single AI vendor for employee productivity and customer-facing workflows, and reinforces the need for fallback procedures, incident communication plans, and tighter service-level monitoring. It also highlights that even short AI platform degradations can have outsized business impact when embedded in core development and support processes.