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Tell HN: CloudFront VPC Origins is down

Amazon CloudFront VPC Origins is experiencing an outage, causing elevated error rates and 504 Gateway Timeout errors for services like WorkOS, which in turn affects re-authentication for MCPs in Claude Code.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 16, 2026

It looks it affects many services, e.g. I'm not able to re-auth many of the MCPs in claude code as all requests to WorkOS timeout with 504 Gateway Timeout, as it reports https://status.workos.com/ elevated error rates:

Investigating - We are seeing elevated error rates across our platform. Our team is investigating. We will share an update as soon as possible.

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