American Express status
American Express uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 1,322 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is American Express down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached American Express successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 657 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 648 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 541 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 583 ms |
Based on 212 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when American Express misbehaves
American Express is a banking and finance service in our banking catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- LoginOnline banking authentication
- Mobile bankingApp access and push approval
- TransfersSending and scheduling payments
- Card paymentsAuthorisations at checkout
- BalancesAccount and transaction data loading
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of American Express's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
American Express appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About American Express
American Express facilitates global financial transactions, allowing cardmembers to check balances, pay monthly statements, and redeem membership rewards. The platform is critical for processing credit card authorizations at point-of-sale terminals and managing merchant accounts through its online portal. When the service experiences issues, users typically report failed login attempts, missing transaction history, or an inability to activate new cards via the mobile app. Rimetry provides an independent check on these banking systems by tracking response times and availability to keep cardholders informed of any regional outages.
American Express (americanexpress.com) is a banking service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now American Express is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 1322 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to americanexpress.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like American Express include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is American Express?
Global payments and credit card network.
American Express is part of our Banking category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Login or two-factor approval fails
- · Balances and transactions won't load
- · Transfers rejected or stuck as pending
- · Card authorisations declined at checkout
Similar patterns often surface across other banking providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Avoid resubmitting a payment that appeared to fail — check the transaction list first
- · Confirm push approval notifications aren't blocked on your phone
- · Try the mobile app and web banking separately; they often fail independently
- · Restart your phone if two-factor prompts never arrive
- · Contact your bank directly for anything involving money that already left the account
- · Check American Express's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to banking.
FAQ
- Is American Express down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past American Express incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to banking.