Federal Reserve Outage History

Fedwire Securities, a component of the Federal Reserve's service status, experienced degraded performance beginning at Jun 12, 2025 6:02 PM UTC and ending at Jun 12, 2025 7:48 PM UTC. The incident moved the component from up to warn and back to up, indicating a temporary degradation that could affect users relying on Fedwire Securities services. The Federal Reserve posted two official updates during the incident, and the outage lasted approximately 1 hour 46 minutes.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component briefly entered a degraded state starting at Jun 3, 2025 3:35 AM UTC and was restored by Jun 3, 2025 3:42 AM UTC, lasting 7 minutes. The FedACH service was the only component affected.

The Federal Reserve status page showed the transition from up to warn and back to up, with two official status updates during the incident. No user reports were recorded for this event.

The Federal Reserve's FedCash service experienced a brief degradation beginning on 2:07 PM UTC. The FedCash component moved from operational to degraded, with users potentially noticing slower performance or intermittent access. The incident lasted approximately 3 hours and 32 minutes and was resolved by 5:39 PM UTC. The issue was communicated via the Federal Reserve status page, with updates describing the degradation and subsequent recovery, returning FedCash to normal.

The Federal Reserve reported a brief degradation for the Services / Account Services, with users potentially experiencing intermittent access to account-related features. The incident appeared as a degraded status on the Federal Reserve's status page, with no indication of a broader system outage.

The issue began at 12:52 AM UTC and was resolved by 2:22 AM UTC, lasting approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. The status page shows the Services / Account Services component transitioning from up to warn and then back to up, indicating a targeted impact on that component rather than a full service outage.

The Federal Reserve Central Bank component briefly degraded on the status page. The degraded state began at May 27, 2025 9:17 PM UTC and lasted until May 27, 2025 10:27 PM UTC, when the service returned to normal. The incident involved a single component and was resolved after approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. The provider posted two official updates detailing the degraded state and restoration.

The Federal Reserve reported a brief degraded state for the FedCash component beginning on 12:52 PM UTC and returning to normal on 1:42 PM UTC. The incident lasted roughly 50 minutes before FedCash returned to its standard operating condition.

There were no user-reported issues, and the change appears limited to the FedCash service without wider impact to other Federal Reserve services.

The Federal Reserve’s Central Bank component entered a degraded state from Apr 26, 2025 4:57 PM UTC to Apr 27, 2025 6:57 PM UTC, indicating partial disruption to Central Bank services. The incident was documented on the Federal Reserve status page as an up-to-warn transition and later a return to normal, with two official updates posted during the incident. Service returned to full operation by Apr 27, 2025 6:57 PM UTC.

The Federal Reserve FedACH payments service briefly degraded for about 30 minutes. FedACH transitioned to degraded performance on Apr 25, 2025 3:27 AM UTC and returned to normal on Apr 25, 2025 3:57 AM UTC, impacting FedACH operations during that window.

During the incident, the Federal Reserve issued two status updates describing the degraded condition and restoration, with impact limited to FedACH operations.

The Federal Reserve FedACH component experienced a brief degraded performance on 2025-04-18, lasting about 20 minutes. The degradation began at 3:32 AM UTC and was resolved by 3:52 AM UTC, with FedACH moving from up to a degraded state before returning to normal. The Federal Reserve issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the change and its resolution. No user reports were observed during the event.

The Federal Reserve experienced degraded performance across two core services: Fedwire Securities and Account Services. The degradation began with Fedwire Securities at 11:12 PM UTC. Account Services entered degradation at 1:02 AM UTC and recovered later at 1:48 AM UTC, while Fedwire Securities remained degraded until 2:52 AM UTC.

Over the course of the incident, the Federal Reserve issued four official updates documenting the progression from degraded to normal for the two components. The event lasted approximately 3 hours 40 minutes for Fedwire Securities and about 46 minutes for Account Services, after which full functionality was restored.