{"slug": "tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down", "title": "Tell HN: CloudFront VPC Origins is down", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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:\n\n> Investigating - We are seeing elevated error rates across our platform. Our team is investigating. We will share an update as soon as possible.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931825", "published_at": "2026-07-16 08:36:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 08:55:36.196957+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools"], "entities": ["Amazon CloudFront", "WorkOS", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-cloudfront-vpc-origins-is-down.jsonld"}}