Internet Status — August 9, 2026: Twilio SMS Delays in 4 Regions
No widespread internet disruption is in progress today. The major cloud platforms, CDNs and developer services we track are reporting normal operations, and there is no evidence of a global routing, DNS or backbone problem.
Active incidents
Twilio is the only tracked provider with open incidents, and all five are rated minor and confined to specific carrier networks rather than to Twilio's platform as a whole. As of this report: SMS delivery delays and failures to Rakuten in Japan (monitoring), SMS delivery failures to Airtel in India (monitoring), SMS delivery delays and failures from long codes to multiple networks in South Africa (investigating), voice call audio quality degradation on Colombian landline numbers (identified), and SMS delivery receipt delays on Liberty Mobile in Puerto Rico (monitoring). These affect messaging and voice traffic into those specific networks; most Twilio customers elsewhere are unaffected. See status.twilio.com for live updates.
Recently resolved
Verizon saw a spike of user-reported problems on August 8, peaking at roughly 13,000 reports on Downdetector beginning around 3:30 PM Eastern. Reports centred on New York, Los Angeles and Boston, with a smaller number of AT&T and T-Mobile users also reporting call failures. Report volumes have since returned to normal and the carriers have not published a formal incident.
All clear
Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Cloudflare, GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Atlassian, Slack, Zoom, Vercel, Heroku, DigitalOcean and Stripe are all reporting normal service. Cloudflare's status page lists a number of edge locations in maintenance windows — Istanbul, Kyiv, Kolkata, Baghdad and others — but these are planned, routine, and automatically routed around; Cloudflare has no unresolved incidents.
One note on context
AWS's public event feed continues to surface its Middle East (UAE) me-central-1 event, which dates from March 1, 2026, when physical damage to facilities took two of the region's three availability zones offline. That is a months-old event still in long-term recovery, not a new disruption, and it does not affect other AWS regions. We were unable to reach the Fastly and Akamai status pages during this check, so those two are unverified rather than confirmed clear; we have no independent signal of problems at either.
Overall: a quiet day. Some regional carrier-level messaging and voice issues, nothing approaching an internet-wide outage.