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About Affirm Status
BlueMonitor checks Affirm (affirm.com) by sending automated requests to its servers. If the service responds within a normal timeframe and returns a successful status code, it's marked as operational. Response times over 3 seconds indicate the service is slow, and connection failures or server errors indicate the service may be down.
Recent Incidents
Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in US
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 27 , 23:00 PDT - May 28 , 02:00 PDT May 12 , 15:07 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 27, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 10 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.
Affirm US Database Maintenance
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 20 , 23:00 PDT - May 21 , 03:00 PDT May 8 , 08:57 PDT Scheduled - On May 20th, 2026, Affirm will be performing updates to its database infrastructure in the US. Affirm's APIs may experience an estimated downtime of up to 18 minutes. The maintenance will begin at 11:00 PM PT on 05/20/2026 and end at 3:00 AM PT on 05/21/2026. The expected downtime is estimated to be, at most, 18 minutes within this 4 hour window.
Affirm UK Database Maintenance
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 20 , 15:00 - 16:00 PDT May 8 , 09:30 PDT Scheduled - On May 20th, 2026, Affirm will be performing updates to its database infrastructure in the UK. Affirm's APIs may experience an estimated downtime of up to 1 minute. The maintenance will begin at 11:00 PM BST on 05/20/2026 and end at 12:00 AM BST on 05/21/2026. The expected downtime is estimated to be, at most, 1 minute within this 1 hour window.
Elevated latency across our services
May 8 , 20:20 PDT Resolved - Our cloud service provider has confirmed operations are fully restored and we are seeing continued healthy observability on our end. Incident resolved. May 8 , 14:55 PDT Update - Our cloud service provider has notified us that full resolution will require some time to finalize. As Affirm's latency and performance have remained stable throughout the day, we will update on Affirm's status when we receive an all-clear signal from the service provider or we see a regression in service health. May 8 , 12:31 PDT Update - We are maintaining a monitoring posture on this incident as we await a statement of permanent resolution from our cloud cloud service provider. Affirm latency and performance remain stable. May 8 , 11:48 PDT Update - We are maintaining a monitoring posture on this incident as we await a statement of permanent resolution from our cloud cloud service provider. Affirm latency and performance remain stable. May 8 , 10:31 PDT Update - Affirm latency and performance remain stable. We are awaiting full confirmation from our cloud service provider before declaring the incident resolved. May 8 , 09:39 PDT Update - We continue to receive positive signal from our cloud service provider. Affirm latency and performance remain stable. We are awaiting full confirmation from our cloud service provider before declaring the incident resolved. May 8 , 08:30 PDT Update - Affirm Latency and overall performance remain stable. We are still awaiting full confirmation from our cloud service provider before declaring the incident resolved. May 8 , 06:38 PDT Update - Latency and overall performance remain stable. We are continuing to monitor while our cloud service provider fully resolves the issue. May 8 , 05:41 PDT Update - Latency and overall performance remain stable. We are continuing to monitor while our cloud service provider fully resolves the issue. May 8 , 04:11 PDT Update - Latency and overall performance remain stabilized. We are continuing
Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in US and CA
May 7 , 03:00 PDT Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. May 6 , 23:00 PDT In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Apr 24 , 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.
Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in the UK
May 6 , 19:00 PDT Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. May 6 , 16:00 PDT In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Apr 24 , 16:46 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 4 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the UK region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 1 minute. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.
US Database Maintenance
Apr 29 , 17:00 PDT Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Apr 29 , 14:00 PDT In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Apr 24 , 12:24 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 2 PM PT on April 29, 2026. No downtime expected.
US SMS Authentication Service Degraded
Apr 18 , 09:31 PDT Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Apr 17 , 22:37 PDT Monitoring - We were able to cutover traffic to a recovered SMS service and have observed recovery. We will continue to monitor before resolving the incident. Apr 17 , 21:15 PDT Update - PIN retry rates for users in US remain unchanged. There is a central point of failure effecting multiple 3rd party SMS providers. Users who retry are successfully completing checkouts. We will continue to monitor the situation and update as it progresses. Apr 17 , 20:03 PDT Update - We are still observing elevated PIN retry rates for users in US. There is a central point of failure effecting multiple 3rd party SMS providers. Users who retry are successfully completing checkouts. We will continue to monitor the situation and update as it progresses. Apr 17 , 19:43 PDT Identified - We have identified the cause of the SMS retry rate and are investigating potential mitigations. Apr 17 , 19:15 PDT Investigating - We are currently investigating an increase in our SMS PIN retry rate affecting Affirm Checkout in the US
No-impact update to core services
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 20 , 23:00 PDT - May 21 , 03:00 PDT Apr 29 , 11:00 PDT Update - This maintenance window has been pushed back to May 20th by request of the migration team. Mar 23 , 15:47 PDT Scheduled - We are making updates to deployment infrastructure on some of our core services. This change involves the creation of new service instances and re-routing traffic to those instances. These changes will occur over the course of 2 hours, beginning at 11pm PT on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026. No downtime or impact to availability is expected from these changes.
Network Maintenance in US/CA and UK
Mar 24 , 05:00 PDT Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Mar 24 , 04:00 PDT In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Mar 20 , 15:53 PDT Scheduled - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
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