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[GH-ISSUE #18461] issue: OpenWebUI on docker does not start due to global AWS outage #34132
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Originally created by @nedjalko-milenkov on GitHub (Oct 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/18461
Check Existing Issues
Installation Method
Docker
Open WebUI Version
0.6.34
Ollama Version (if applicable)
No response
Operating System
Ubuntu 22.04
Browser (if applicable)
No response
Confirmation
README.md.Expected Behavior
The web server should start and see a console message: "INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8080 (Press CTRL+C to quit)"
Actual Behavior
The web server does not start and the latest message in the log is:
openWebUI-1 | INFO: Started server process [1]
openWebUI-1 | INFO: Waiting for application startup.
openWebUI-1 | 2025-10-20 13:24:17.287 | INFO | open_webui.utils.logger:start_logger:162 - GLOBAL_LOG_LEVEL: INFO
openWebUI-1 | 2025-10-20 13:24:17.287 | INFO | open_webui.main:lifespan:561 - Installing external dependencies of functions and tools...
openWebUI-1 | 2025-10-20 13:24:17.314 | INFO | open_webui.utils.plugin:install_frontmatter_requirements:283 - No requirements found in frontmatter.
Steps to Reproduce
You will not be able to start the web server.
Logs & Screenshots
openWebUI-2-1 | Loading WEBUI_SECRET_KEY from file, not provided as an environment variable.
openWebUI-2-1 | Loading WEBUI_SECRET_KEY from .webui_secret_key
openWebUI-2-1 | INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl SQLiteImpl.
openWebUI-2-1 | INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume non-transactional DDL.
openWebUI-2-1 | WARNI [open_webui.env]
openWebUI-2-1 |
openWebUI-2-1 | WARNING: CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN IS SET TO '*' - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENTS.
openWebUI-2-1 |
openWebUI-2-1 | INFO [open_webui.env] VECTOR_DB: chroma
openWebUI-2-1 | INFO [open_webui.env] Embedding model set: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
openWebUI-2-1 | WARNI [langchain_community.utils.user_agent] USER_AGENT environment variable not set, consider setting it to identify your requests.
openWebUI-2-1 |
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openWebUI-2-1 | ╚██████╔╝██║ ███████╗██║ ╚████║ ╚███╔███╔╝███████╗██████╔╝╚██████╔╝██║
openWebUI-2-1 | ╚═════╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═══╝ ╚══╝╚══╝ ╚══════╝╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═╝
openWebUI-2-1 |
openWebUI-2-1 |
openWebUI-2-1 | v0.6.34 - building the best AI user interface.
openWebUI-2-1 |
openWebUI-2-1 | https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
openWebUI-2-1 |
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openWebUI-2-1 | INFO: Started server process [1]
openWebUI-2-1 | INFO: Waiting for application startup.
openWebUI-2-1 | 2025-10-20 13:46:28.540 | INFO | open_webui.utils.logger:start_logger:162 - GLOBAL_LOG_LEVEL: INFO
openWebUI-2-1 | 2025-10-20 13:46:28.540 | INFO | open_webui.main:lifespan:561 - Installing external dependencies of functions and tools...
openWebUI-2-1 | 2025-10-20 13:46:28.554 | INFO | open_webui.utils.plugin:install_frontmatter_requirements:283 - No requirements found in frontmatter.
Additional Information
Currently there is a global AWS outage and a lot of service are affected, however I am running OpenWebUI locally and it is not connected to any 3rd party services including AWS. Since today morning I cannot start the service. It is stuck on "Waiting for application startup.".
It seems OpenWebUI is making a web call to a 3rd party service that is currently unavailable and is blocking the whole application.
I thought the whole idea of OpenWebUI is to be self-hosted and independent of 3rd party services.
I have gone back to previous version and below version 0.5.16, the OpenWebUI works. After version 0.5.16 it stucks on "Waiting for application startup.". This means that there is a new feature that calls a 3rd party service that blocks the whole application.
@Classic298 commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2025):
Cannot reproduce with provided steps to reproduce. Works fine for me