eFileCA Platform Declares AWS Outage ‘Resolved’ Despite Ongoing Email Disruptions Affecting California Legal Filings

The lingering email delays, however, create uncertainty around filing confirmations. Legal professionals may need to manually verify submission status through the eFileCA portal rather than relying on automated email receipts—adding extra steps to already time-pressured workflows.

For cases with imminent filing deadlines, this creates potential risk. If a document is rejected for technical or formatting reasons but the rejection email is delayed, attorneys may miss their window to correct and resubmit before a court-imposed deadline expires.

Tyler Technologies stated it is “monitoring this activity” and committed to providing updates as more information becomes available, though no specific timeline for full email service restoration was provided.

The Broader Cloud Reliability Question

This incident highlights the vulnerability of critical legal infrastructure to third-party cloud service disruptions. When Amazon Web Services experiences problems, the ripple effects extend far beyond typical consumer applications—they can impact access to justice itself.