American Express status
American Express uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · 30 days
- 100%
- Response time
- 44 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is American Express down, or is it just you?
Multiple independent check rounds from rimetry's monitoring infrastructure, run seconds apart.
Our checks reached American Express successfully in every round of the last check cycle.
| Check round | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Reachable | 100% | 385 ms |
| Round 2 | Reachable | 100% | 368 ms |
| Round 3 | Reachable | 100% | 329 ms |
| Round 4 | Reachable | 100% | 343 ms |
Based on 364 automated checks in the last 24 hours. Each round is an independent pass over the same endpoint, seconds apart — a single failing round is not an outage; repeated failures across rounds are.
What can be affected on American Express?
These are the main American Express functions that can experience separate issues.
- Login & authenticationTest signing in from a private browser window or another device
- Mobile appForce-close and reopen the app, then retry on mobile data
- Accounts & balancesBalances can lag — refresh once before assuming data loss
- TransfersConfirm whether the transfer was queued before retrying it
- Card paymentsCheck whether card payments fail while transfers still work
- PaymentsTry a second payment method before repeating a failed attempt
This list shows which parts can fail on their own. It does not mean any of them is failing right now — the live status above is the only claim we make about the current state.
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.
Problems with American Express can affect login & authentication, mobile app, accounts & balances independently.
American Express (americanexpress.com) is a banking service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.
Right now American Express is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 44 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
- · Test signing in from a private browser window or another device
- · Force-close and reopen the app, then retry on mobile data
- · Balances can lag — refresh once before assuming data loss
- · Confirm whether the transfer was queued before retrying it
- · 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. - Is American Express Login & authentication down?
Login & authentication can fail on its own, separately from the rest of American Express. Compare the live status above with your own test of that specific function. - 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.