Cloudflare incident: Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States

1. resolvedOct 18, 2026, 08:50 UTC

   Due to unexpected prefix withdrawals on peering links in IAD and CMH (Ashburn, Virginia and Columbus, Ohio, in the United States) on an external provider, customers experienced increased latency and timeouts from 08:00 to 08:50 UTC. Services have fully normalized following the restoration of prefix advertisements.

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