Cloudflare incident: Network Performance Issues in Ashburn, IAD

Affected components

• Ashburn, United States - (IAD)

1. monitoringOct 28, 2026, 05:05 UTC

   We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

2. investigatingOct 28, 2026, 04:39 UTC

   Cloudflare is investigating network performance issues affecting our Ashburn (IAD) data center. Traffic routed through this location may experience elevated latency and/or 5xx errors. We are working to analyze and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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