W/C 20th October 2025
AWS Global Outage Updates:
9am: There is a global AWS outage that is affecting some internal business operations. Cortex product services are currently unaffected, though this may change as the outage progresses. We will continue to update this page and communicate to clients as we know further. Please note, some of your third parties may also be impacted.
10:15am: We will be making rolling updates via our changelog which you can find here. Please report any concerns regarding Cortex products via your support services.
11:17am: Amazon are reporting recovery across many services; this reduces the likely impact of issues on the Cortex services. Live Amazon updates can be found here, and we will continue to update this page as required.
12:11pm: AWS are now reporting recovery across most affected features. Cortex internal services and products are running as expected, no downtime has been experienced across the platform.
Content Management
Content
- Search query optimisations.
- Standardisation of search endpoints.
- Usage tracking update.
Custom Content Blocks
- Usage tracking update.
Live Blog
- Usage Tracking Updates.
Events
- Fix to enable bulk edit by broadcaster .
- Usage tracking update.
Feed Builder
- Usage tracking update.
Navigation
- Usage tracking update.
Data and Marketing
Audience Builder
- DD new API update (Unified Contacts method), makes SMS number a configurable unique ID in a sync.
Promo Assets
- Placements BE deploy to prod.
- Placements FE staying on feature until IC rollout agreed .
- Variant Quotas staying on feature until IC rollout agreed.
Single Fan View
- FDP API in Snowflake.
Activations
Polls
- New features yet to go live.
Forms
- Usage Tracking Updates.
Administration
Integrations/Integration Manager
- Secutix export release.
- Prod endpoint release.
- Meta
- Swrve
- Engage+
- FDP-Warehouse
SSO
SSO Data Export
- SSO export flow for User data & Preferences.
Profile Service
- Adding Export capability.
Preferences
- Adding Export capability.
Site Reliability
D&M Infrastructure
- Move fake data generators to Prefect v3 & Snowflake (used for internal testing purposes).