Is Substack down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is no indication that Substack is currently experiencing an outage.

Substack is a platform that lets writers publish email newsletters and monetize them through subscriptions.

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Substack outage map · 2025-10-30

No outages have been reported for Substack in the past 24 hours.

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So, Substack, Amazon, Canva, and Coinbase all went down.. They’re all on Amazon Web Services (AWS). One company controls the backbone of huge parts of the internet, the same one known for union-busting, tax dodging, and investing $7.2 billion to launch data centers in Israel.