Cloudflare Outage Affects Newark, NJ Data Center Operations
DATA AND AI INFRASTRUCTURE
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.

Feb 17, 2026, 11:41 AM