No widespread internet problems were detected as of 10:30 UTC on September 17, 2026. Core infrastructure (Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, GitHub, Akamai, OpenAI, Anthropic, Discord, Atlassian, Slack, Zoom, Vercel, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Stripe) is reporting normal operations, and crowd-sourced outage trackers show no unusual spikes this morning.
**AWS confirms permanent data loss in its Bahrain region**
The most significant development of the past 72 hours is a pair of updates AWS posted on September 15 to its long-running Middle East disruption. For the Bahrain region (me-south-1), AWS says the damage from the March conflict "spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," and that it is "unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." The next update is promised for early 2027. For the UAE region (me-central-1), AWS says resources and data hosted only in the mec1-az2 zone cannot be recovered, while recovery work continues on the other two zones. Both regions have been unavailable or unreliable since March 2026, and AWS has been steering customers to other regions since then. Source: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
**Resolved on September 16**
**Discord** had a roughly 50-minute voice-call outage in the afternoon US time, with thousands of Downdetector reports peaking around 3 PM ET, following a shorter API-errors incident earlier in the day. Both are resolved. Source: https://discordstatus.com**Google Play billing** had problems with purchases and subscription management for several hours. The knock-on effect showed up on other companies' status pages: Discord could not complete Android purchases, and Anthropic reported failed Claude subscriptions on Android. Both cleared once Google fixed the underlying issue. Sources: https://discordstatus.com · https://status.claude.com**Cloudflare** resolved three small network-level issues: HTTP 522 errors from its St. Louis facility, degraded performance in Los Angeles, and a 1.1.1.1 resolver problem with Tunisian (.tn) domains. Source: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com**GitHub Copilot** saw degraded performance from third-party model providers on September 15 and 16, and Anthropic reported intermittent error spikes for its Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1 models on September 15. All resolved. Sources: https://www.githubstatus.com · https://status.claude.com**Akamai** had a 12-minute HTTPS edge-delivery performance issue early on September 15. Source: https://www.akamaistatus.com**Minor items still open**
**Twilio** lists a batch of carrier-specific SMS, MMS and voice delivery issues opened overnight (Optus and other Australian carriers, Three UK, Hong Kong, GCI in the US, Rogers in Canada) plus an SNA authentication issue for PLDT Smart in the Philippines. These are narrow, per-carrier problems of the kind Twilio reports routinely. Source: https://status.twilio.com**Replicate** reports some Pruna models unable to scale up, causing long queues or unavailability. Source: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com**Cloudflare WARP** continues to report incorrect geolocation for some users, an issue open since August 27.Crowd reports also mention IndiHome and Telkomsel in Indonesia around midnight local time on September 17. We could not confirm these with an official source, and volumes appear modest.
**Bottom line:** the internet is up. Yesterday's Discord and Google Play disruptions are over, and the AWS announcement is a formal write-off of infrastructure that has been unavailable for months rather than a new outage.