We are investigating connectivity issues with our CDN and Cloud provider.
All products are currently experiencing degradation or unavailability
monitoring
Connectivity appears to have stabilised.
We are monitoring for full recovery and continuing to investigate the root cause with our vendors.
resolved
All systems are back to full operation.
postmortem
**Service Disruption — July 24, 2026**
**Status**: Resolved
**Summary**
Between approximately 10:55 and 11:15 UTC, users across our core products \(Reading Eggs, Mathseeds, Fast Phonics, Wordflyers, Reading Eggspress, and related services\) experienced intermittent errors and slow or failed page loads. The issue has been fully resolved and all services have returned to normal operation.
**Impact**
Affected users may have seen connection timeouts, slow responses, or error pages when accessing our applications. Impact was global and does not appear to have been isolated to any single region or network.
**Root Cause**
The disruption coincides with an operational issue reported by AWS affecting multiple services in our primary hosting region \(Oregon, US\). This caused backend application servers across several of our services to become temporarily unresponsive, which in turn caused our CDN \(Cloudflare\) to be unable to reach our origin servers — resulting in the errors users experienced. Cloudflare's own network was operating normally throughout; the issue was upstream, at the infrastructure layer.
**Timeline \(UTC\)**
10:55 — Elevated error rates begin across multiple services
11:00–11:10 — Peak impact; automated monitoring alerts triggered
11:05–11:15 — Services progressively recover as backend capacity is restored
11:15 — All services confirmed operating normally
**Resolution**
Affected services recovered automatically as underlying infrastructure capacity was restored. No customer data was affected at any point during this incident.
We apologise for the disruption and thank you for your patience.
We are investigating reports of widespread outage across our platforms.
identified
Our CDN provider is experiencing a widespread outage affecting access to our sites.
We are monitoring status and investigating options to reroute traffic.
monitoring
service appears to have been restored. However we are monitoring for issues and waiting for confirmation of full recovery
monitoring
We are continuing to monitor, but all services appear to be operational.
resolved
Our sites appear to be fully recovered and operational.
Network issues with service provider
Started November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM UTC · 8h 25m
Our CDN service provider is currently experiencing issues that is affecting access to our sites.
We will be monitoring the status for remediation and post updates as we hear them.
identified
We are continuing to see issues accessing our applications.
This is related to the outage that our CDN provider is experiencing.
At this time we cannot provide an estimate on when service will be restored.
monitoring
Our applications are beginning to show signs of recovery with Cloudflare reporting service restoration
We are continuing to monitor.
Our applications are currently experiencing issues which is related to an outage with one of our cloud providers.
Access to all products will be impacted. We are investigating if we are able to work around this issue.
identified
We are continuing to work with our cloud provider to resolve this issue.
We will provide updates here as we have them.
identified
Unfortunately we are still continuing to experience issues with our student applications while our cloud provider works to resolve the issue.
While application dashboards are accessible, lessons and activities will not be available.
monitoring
Student applications are beginning to recover and lessons are loading.
We will continue to monitor to ensure full system recovery.
monitoring
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
resolved
Student lessons and activities are now fully recovered across our applications.
Investigating issues accessing reporting information
We are currently investigating issues accessing the reading eggs platform
resolved
The problem has resolved and all products are accessible and performant.
We have identified the cause and will implement a fix to ensure this does not occur again.
Service provider issues affecting availability
Started September 19, 2023 at 12:03 AM UTC · 6h 24m
Our Cloud service provider is currently experiencing issues in the us-west-2 region where our production services run.
They have identified the issues and working to resolve it, but while this happens our products are experiencing availability issues.
We will update with additional information once we learn more
identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
monitoring
While our cloud provider continues to resolve the issue, we have been able to workaround the issue.
We are monitoring and while full service is restored, performance may still be impacted.
resolved
Our cloud provider has resolved the issue and we are seeing services working as normal once again.
Readingeggs unavailability
Started July 17, 2023 at 2:51 AM UTC · 3h 3m
IssuesMinor incident
Affected components
ReadingEggs
monitoring
Readingeggs and the readingeggs student application experienced an outage preventing use of the program.
The underlying issue has now been resolved and access restored.
resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating errors with Readingeggs
Started April 24, 2023 at 6:14 PM UTC · 4h 21m
OutageMajor incident
Affected components
ReadingEggs
investigating
We are investigating reports of errors completing activities in the Readingeggs student platform.
investigating
We have identified a database issue which is causing problems progressing through activities in Readingeggs student.
While we are resolving this, we will be putting our re-student platform in maintenance mode.
identified
The problem has been identified and a fix being implemented.
Readingeggs student remains unavailable while this is completed.
monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring
Readingeggs student is available again
resolved
The issue is now resolved.
Use of iOS and Android apps degraded
Started October 5, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC · 1h 0m
OutageMajor incident
resolved
Mobile apps may have experienced connectivity issues due to a DNS change impacting the resolution of the mobile api between 2022/10/5 16:00 AEDT and 2022/10/5 17:05 AEDT.
The issue is now resolved and we apologise for the disruption.
Our CDN provider is experiencing widespread issues resulting in our applications being inaccessible.
We are working with our CDN provider to understand the issue.
monitoring
Our CDN provider has implemented a fix.
We are monitoring to ensure full service has been restored.
resolved
The site has been stable since the fix was implemented and this issue is now resolved
Web and Mobile access slow or inaccessible
Started October 16, 2021 at 11:44 PM UTC · 37m
OutageMajor incident
Affected components
Reading EggspressMathseedsReadingEggs
investigating
We are currently investigating the issue
investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
identified
The issue has been identified and a fix being implemented
monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results
resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Mathseeds errors
Started August 31, 2021 at 7:12 PM UTC · 41m
Pending
Affected components
Mathseeds
investigating
Experiencing high errors on Mathseeds. We are currently investigating.
identified
Mathseeds errors have been resolved. We are currently monitoring for any further issues.
resolved
Mathseeds errors have been resolved. We are currently monitoring for any further issues.
Reading Eggspress unavailability
Started May 5, 2021 at 3:14 PM UTC · 162d 11h
Pending
Affected components
Reading Eggspress
investigating
We have identified issues being able to access Reading Eggspress. We're actively investigating
identified
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring
monitoring
Site accessibility is currently stable and we continue to monitor
resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Readingeggs Admin elevated errors
Started March 28, 2021 at 10:24 PM UTC · 38d 5h
IssuesMinor incident
Affected components
Admin
investigating
We are investigating an issue with Readingeggs Admin which is returning error pages for some users.
monitoring
A fix has been applied and we are monitoring stability.
resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating performance issues and timeouts
Started March 25, 2021 at 12:46 AM UTC · 3h 22m
IssuesMinor incident
Affected components
Reading EggspressMathseedsWordflyersReadingEggs
investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the situation. Affected services are now operational.
resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Readingeggs outage history and incident timeline | Uptimus