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Cloudflare: Major incident: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America

Summary

Cloudflare reported a major network performance incident affecting Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR), with elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled there. It started at 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-15 21:38 UTC; the computed duration was 49 min. Cloudflare reported no customer impact by 2026-10-15 21:24 UTC.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 94%)Changed Detected Source: www.cloudflarestatus.com

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America
AddedImpact#2
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AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC
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After: 2026-10-15 21:38 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), Cloudflare Sites and Services - Network, Network, Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR), North America - Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), North America - Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR)
AddedUpdateidentified#7
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After: Cloudflare has identified an issue with network performance affecting our Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR) facilities. Customers may observed elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled by these facilities until the issue is resolved. We are working on a fix for this issue and will have more updates shortly.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
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After: Our engineering teams are continuing to remediate the issue. No customer impact is being seen at this time.
AddedUpdateresolved#9
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America (this change)
Cloudflare reported a major network performance incident affecting Ashburn (IAD) and Newark (EWR), with elevated latency and/or errors for traffic handled there. It started at 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-15 21:38 UTC; the computed duration was 49 min. Cloudflare reported no customer impact by 2026-10-15 21:24 UTC.
Major incident

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