Internet Status โ March 5, 2026: Cloudflare Partial Outages, ChatGPT Disruption, Oracle/TikTok Recovery
Several notable incidents are affecting internet services today, though no widespread internet-wide disruption is occurring.
Cloudflare is experiencing partial outages across multiple regions including parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and select US cities (Charlotte, Norfolk, San Antonio). Scheduled maintenance is also underway in Istanbul and planned for Toronto, Chicago, and Portland in the coming days.
OpenAI reported issues with ChatGPT users being unable to send messages starting around 18:12 UTC. After investigation, mitigations were applied and the team is monitoring recovery. Earlier in the day, elevated error rates hit the Realtime API in the EU region but have since resolved.
Oracle Cloud experienced an outage on March 3-4 that knocked TikTok offline for US users. This was the second Oracle data center failure affecting TikTok in roughly a month, both involving the US East (Ashburn) region. Oracle confirmed recovery by 09:24 UTC on March 4.
GitHub shows some third-party reports of service degradation, though the official status page lists no active incidents. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure are all reporting normal operations. The AWS Middle East (me-central-1) physical incident from March 1 appears fully resolved.
Overall, the internet is up with some service-specific disruptions. No BGP routing incidents or DNS infrastructure issues were detected today.