Internet Status — May 18, 2026: All Clear

The internet is operating normally today. No widespread outages, routing failures, or major platform disruptions are in progress as of May 18, 2026.

Core infrastructure is healthy. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Akamai, Vercel, Atlassian, and Slack all report fully operational status with no active incidents. Cloudflare shows a small number of scattered edge-location partial outages and two issues still in the monitoring phase — a PayPal billing payment error (fix implemented May 16) and a gradual re-enablement of two Bot Management detection rules — neither of which affects general internet connectivity. Routine scheduled datacenter maintenance is underway at Cloudflare (Sydney, Guatemala City and others) and Zoom (Frankfurt, Amsterdam), with no expected user impact.

Recently resolved (past ~72 hours): a GitHub Actions degradation on May 15 that affected up to 42% of workflow runs for roughly an hour, and several Akamai Edge Delivery and Cloudlets issues on May 13–14. Separately, submarine cable faults on the EASSy and Seacom systems disrupted connectivity along the East African coast starting May 12; traffic rerouted via alternative providers with elevated latency, and the situation has been stabilizing.

Bottom line: the internet is up and stable. Sources: cloudflarestatus.com, status.cloud.google.com, azure.status.microsoft, githubstatus.com, status.openai.com, akamaistatus.com, blog.cloudflare.com.