Internet Status — May 12, 2026: Brief Google Search outage; ongoing Cloudflare and Akamai bot-management issues

The internet is largely up and operating normally today, but several notable incidents are worth flagging.

Google Search suffered a brief but widespread outage starting around 04:30 UTC, returning "500 Internal Server Error" messages to users across Australia, India, Europe, and parts of the United States. Downdetector recorded thousands of reports globally. The disruption was resolved within roughly 30 minutes, and Google has not posted a formal incident on its Search status dashboard.

Cloudflare Bot Management remains globally disabled while engineers work through a multi-day mitigation that began on May 5 (rules 50331648 and 50331649 matching traffic unexpectedly), with a 72-hour stabilization period in progress. A localized network connectivity issue in Perth (elevated HTTP 4xx/502 errors) was resolved earlier this morning between 03:24 and 04:50 UTC.

Akamai Bot Manager Premier is in a monitoring state after a release was rolled back that had caused false positives blocking legitimate traffic.

Twilio continues to work through a number of carrier-level SMS and voice issues, including delivery failures to US toll-free numbers, Djibouti Telecom, Google Voice short codes, and SMS delivery delays across multiple European networks (Romania, Serbia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cabo Verde).

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Slack, Zoom, Atlassian, Vercel, DigitalOcean, Stripe, and Heroku all show no active incidents at this time. No major BGP or undersea-cable incidents were detected.

Overall: incidents detected, but no internet-wide outage — the internet is up.