No New Outages; AWS Bahrain Down
No internet-wide disruption today. The major cloud, CDN, and platform providers are largely operating normally, with a handful of service-specific incidents open and no new BGP routing or submarine cable faults detected.
Active incidents
Akamai has Data Services and Reporting degraded, with a data-availability issue affecting "Traffic by Hostname" reporting. Root cause was identified on August 20 at 18:32 UTC and mitigation remains in progress. Content delivery itself is unaffected. Source: https://www.akamaistatus.com/
Slack continues an incident open since August 13: channels in workspaces with custom data retention policies cannot serve historical messages. Retention settings have been restored, but the retention jobs themselves remain on hold. Source: https://slack-status.com/
Twilio is partially degraded, affecting Bulk Export, some carrier lookups, and Zipwhip toll-free SMS to North America. Two separate issues resolved today: Japan voice services and Altan Redes SMS in Mexico. Source: https://status.twilio.com/
Zoom reports degradation in its Meta integration for Zoom CX third-party clients, with the root cause identified. Source: https://www.zoomstatus.com/
Long-running conditions
AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain) remains unavailable and me-central-1 (UAE) remains impaired, both dating to conflict-related infrastructure damage in late March 2026. AWS has indicated restoration is measured in months rather than days. This was verified against independent reporting rather than the status feed alone. Source: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Resolved in the past 72 hours
Google Cloud cleared a us-west1 incident on August 20 that ran 3 hours 40 minutes and touched more than 26 products. GitHub resolved a Copilot Cloud Agent degradation spanning August 20 and 21. Cloudflare closed a cluster of short regional incidents. Anthropic resolved model and connector errors on August 20. DigitalOcean restored Container Registry and Spaces, with GPU Droplets in MKC1 still recovering. AWS cleared a Connect metrics issue in ap-northeast-1.
Operating normally
Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, OpenAI, Discord, Atlassian, Vercel, Heroku, Stripe, Cursor, Groq, Replicate, ElevenLabs, Cohere, Stability AI, and Meta all report all-clear.
Bottom line: the internet is up. Today's open issues are service-specific rather than internet-wide.