Internet Status — May 17, 2026: Online, With Some Provider-Level Incidents

The internet is operating normally worldwide. There is no widespread outage today, and core connectivity, DNS, and routing are healthy. A handful of provider-level incidents are worth noting but none are causing internet-wide disruption.

Cloudflare is reporting degraded performance in several areas. Its Bot Management feature was disabled globally after detection rules (IDs 50331648 and 50331649) misfired; Cloudflare plans to re-enable detections on Monday, May 18, after weekend stability monitoring. A PayPal billing issue and degraded Email Routing are also being monitored. General Cloudflare traffic delivery is unaffected.

Elsewhere, AWS shows only minor, region-specific component issues (Bahrain/UAE) with the broader platform operational. Twilio has localized SMS delivery problems (Mexico/AT&T, certain US short codes to Google Voice, and Australian Sender ID registrations). On the physical-infrastructure side, East African connectivity remains affected by submarine cable faults on the EASSy and Seacom systems reported around May 12, a regional rather than global issue.

Major platforms — Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Akamai, Fastly, Slack, Vercel, and DigitalOcean — are all reporting normal operations. Recently resolved items in the past 72 hours include Cloudflare R2/Durable Object errors (May 16), a brief GitHub Actions degradation (May 15), and a DigitalOcean DNS/Let's Encrypt issue (May 14).

Bottom line: the internet is up. A few services have isolated, mostly non-customer-facing degradations, but everyday connectivity is normal.