Cloudflare Outage Affects Newark, NJ Data Center Operations
Cloudflare experienced an outage at its Newark, NJ data center on February 16, causing elevated latency for some HTTP requests. The company confirmed the issue at 10:19 UTC and began investigating. By 12:02 UTC, they identified the problem and started working on a fix. This outage coincided with issues faced by X and AWS, although their connection remains unclear. Previous global outages for Cloudflare in November 2025 affected several major platforms, but DCD and SDxCentral were unaffected in this incident.

On February 16, Cloudflare reported an outage at its Newark, NJ data center, impacting a subset of HTTP requests due to elevated latency. The status was updated at 10:19 UTC, with ongoing investigations noted.
By 12:02 UTC, Cloudflare had identified the cause and was working towards a resolution. This incident occurred alongside outages for X and AWS, although no direct link has been established. While AWS has resolved its issues, problems for X were still reported. Notably, previous outages in November 2025 affected major platforms like ChatGPT and League of Legends, but DCD and SDxCentral were not impacted this time.




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