Internet Status — May 23, 2026: Incidents Detected at Cloudflare, Akamai, and Twilio

Several notable but contained incidents are active today, with no widespread internet-wide disruption.

Cloudflare investigated elevated API error rates starting at 19:41 UTC; a fix was implemented at 20:57 UTC and the incident is now in monitoring status. Customers reported API call failures during the window. A handful of Cloudflare datacenters (including Jacksonville, Norfolk, Ottawa, Skopje, Ljubljana, Bandar Seri Begawan, and Astana) are also showing partial outages alongside scheduled maintenance in several regions.

Akamai continues to work on a Reporting issue affecting URL Traffic and URL Responses reports first identified on May 19; a fix is being implemented and Data Services / Reporting remain in Degraded Performance.

Twilio is dealing with multiple ongoing messaging issues: SMS delivery failures to Twilio Denmark numbers, Australian Sender ID registrations transitioning to REJECTED, and US Short Code SMS delivery failures to Google Voice. Carrier network shows Degraded Performance in several geographies.

Zoom resolved a service degradation affecting Web Zoom Mail and Web Calendar earlier today (00:10 PDT) and remains in monitoring mode.

Major hyperscalers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud report no broad severe incidents. GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Slack, Atlassian (Jira / Confluence / Bitbucket), Vercel, and DigitalOcean all report all systems operational. No notable BGP routing leaks, DNS authority failures, or undersea cable disruptions are being reported today.

Sources: cloudflarestatus.com, akamaistatus.com, status.twilio.com, zoomstatus.com, status.cloud.google.com, azure.status.microsoft, githubstatus.com.