Internet Status β May 20, 2026: Mostly Operational with Isolated Provider Incidents
The global internet is operating normally on May 20, 2026, with no widespread outages or major BGP routing incidents detected.
The largest hyperscale providers β AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud β all report all services healthy across regions. Cloudflare, Fastly, GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Atlassian, Slack, and Vercel are likewise reporting all systems operational. Cloudflare is running scheduled maintenance windows in its MontrΓ©al (YUL) and Perth (PER) datacenters; some PNI/CNI customers may see minor failover or latency, but no customer-impacting outage is reported.
A handful of smaller, isolated provider incidents are open:
Recently resolved (past 72 hours): GitHub Actions degraded availability (May 15), Discord guild/session availability (May 9), and Cloudflare PayPal billing errors (mitigated May 16).
No BGP hijacks, route leaks, undersea-cable cuts, or country-level disruptions have been reported today. Overall the internet is up and stable.