What breaks when AWS goes down?
AWS is an upstream dependency for 12 AI tools we track. When it has an outage, these can degrade or fail — and 7 have no fallback at all.
Blast radius
12
tools affected · 7 with no fallback
Tools that depend on AWS
Ranked by how hard they break. Every relationship is sourced — click a badge to verify.
- OperationalCursorCriticalNo fallback
- OperationalPerplexityCriticalNo fallback
- OperationalClaudeCriticalNo fallback
- v0 by VercelHighNo fallback
- DegradedChatGPTPartialNo fallback
- ClinePartialCan switch
- Roo CodePartialCan switch
- ContinuePartialCan switch
- AiderPartialCan switch
- OperationalBolt.newPartialCan switchInferred· verified Jun 22, 2026
What to use instead right now
Operational tools that don't depend on AWS (so a AWSoutage won't take them with it):
Dependencies are curated and sourced (evidence shown per row). Impact and "no fallback" reflect public model/provider documentation, not a confirmed real-time outage of each product. AIDownCheck is independent and not affiliated with AWS.