Outage report · Major outage
Backblaze outage on Nov 5, 2026
New incident: "Unable to login to EWC in production"
What happened
Backblaze reported a major outage starting Nov 5, 2026, 23:29 UTC. The incident is still open on the vendor's status page.
- Backblaze had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Backblaze
Milestone is now 'identified'. Previously milestone was 'investigating' Due to an ongoing service issue, all Organization Services APIs are currently unavailable, affecting Enterprise Web Console logins and bucket creation for organization accounts. Our team is investigating and working to restore service. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our checks of Backblaze's public login and customer-facing pages kept responding during this incident, so the problem was most likely inside the product (for example a specific feature, region or integration) rather than a full site outage.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Backblaze's overall reliability
Backblaze has a reliability score of 55.7/100, with 99.60% effective uptime and 5 incidents over the last 90 days.
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