# Cloudflare: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC · Resolved: 2026-10-15 21:38 UTC · Duration: 50 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), North America - Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), Cloudflare Sites and Services - Network, Network, Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR), North America - Newark, NJ, United States - (EWR)
- [Vendor status page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/fiv2bu3zf8kx](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/fiv2bu3zf8kx)
- [Company: Cloudflare](https://rewindex.com/company/cloudflare.md)

## 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. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC: 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-10-15 21:24 UTC: Our engineering teams are continuing to remediate the issue. No customer impact is being seen at this time.
- **resolved** 2026-10-15 21:38 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-10-15 20:48 UTC: [Major incident: Network Performance Issues in Eastern North America](https://rewindex.com/change/ib81231249e88e1.md)


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