# Cloudflare: Major incident: Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-23 15:47 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-23 15:53 UTC
- [Source: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/sufgcbe8rrwt](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/sufgcbe8rrwt)
- [Company: Cloudflare](https://rewindex.com/company/cloudflare.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:82/sufgcbe8rrwt@fdd1cdcf84ba
- Change 1 of 9 for this incident

## Discussed on Hacker News

- [Cloudflare Is Having Issues](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211037): 9 points, 1 comments, posted 2026-10-23 15:53 UTC, posted 7 min after the vendor’s first update

Incident page (full timeline): [Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers](https://rewindex.com/company/cloudflare/incidents/sufgcbe8rrwt.md)
## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ investigating
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-10-23 15:47 UTC
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**5. Added: Affected components**

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+ Cloudflare Sites and Services - Network, Network
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**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-23 15:47 UTC

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+ We are investigating degraded network performance affecting some traffic between our Ashburn and Atlanta data centers.  Some customers may see increased latency, packet loss, or intermittent errors on Workers and other services in the Eastern US.  Our network team is actively working on mitigation.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-23 15:47 UTC | Major incident: Degraded network performance affecting some traffic between Cloudflare data centers (this change) | outage |
| 2026-10-23 16:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/rc39c8b6b7a3deb.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 16:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/r491e5f036af819.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 17:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/r5760db0c75281e.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 17:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/rf4b4501888c0b0.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 17:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/r059394a8ffc7d6.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 17:43 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/re08f83f29cd8da.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-23 18:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/r74fa90ecaa0243.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-23 18:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Network connectivity issues affecting services in North America](https://rewindex.com/change/r7e25277d7c0bd9.md) | Normal progress |

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