Internet Status - March 17, 2026: Minor Incidents Across Several Services
A few localized incidents are affecting services today, though core internet infrastructure remains stable.
Cloudflare is monitoring degraded performance on its Workers platform after an increase in errors was detected on March 16. A fix has been implemented and is under observation. Additionally, Cloudflare has scheduled maintenance at its Los Angeles (LAX) datacenter today between 09:00 and 15:00 UTC, which may cause brief latency increases for some users.
OpenAI is experiencing elevated errors with ChatGPT sign-in and account creation, an issue that began at 02:42 UTC today. A mitigation has been applied and the team is monitoring recovery. API services remain unaffected.
Verizon users reported connectivity issues beginning around midnight Eastern Time, with thousands of reports on outage tracking sites. The scope and resolution status remain unclear.
An Xfinity outage that disrupted internet service across the San Francisco Bay Area on March 16 has been resolved, with most users reporting restored connectivity.
All three major cloud providers - AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure - report normal operations with no active incidents. No BGP routing anomalies or DNS infrastructure issues have been detected.
Overall, the internet is up and functioning normally. Todays incidents are localized and do not indicate any systemic or widespread disruption.