Internet Status — July 2, 2026: Cloudflare Recovering From North America Issue; AWS UAE Region Still Impaired

The internet is broadly healthy today, with two notable provider incidents and no global disruption.

Cloudflare — North America network performance issue (recovering). At 00:23 UTC today, Cloudflare began investigating network performance problems in Eastern and Western North America (ENAM/WNAM), logged as a major-impact incident on cloudflarestatus.com. Customers using Argo Smart Routing in the affected regions were impacted. The cause was identified by 01:03 UTC, a fix has been implemented, and Cloudflare is monitoring the results. A separate minor incident — degraded availability for some Workers AI models — has been open since June 16.

AWS — Middle East (UAE) region still impaired. The ME-CENTRAL-1 region remains unable to reliably support customer workloads after two facilities were physically damaged by drone strikes in mid-June amid the regional conflict. AWS says recovery will take several months, billing for the region is suspended during restoration, and customers are advised to migrate workloads to other regions and enact disaster recovery plans (health.aws.amazon.com).

Minor issues elsewhere: Twilio reports three minor regional SMS incidents (sender verification in Australia, delivery delays to Asia Cell Iraq, delivery failures to Natcom Haiti). OpenAI has an ongoing incident limited to FedRAMP government workspaces; its public APIs and ChatGPT are operational.

All clear elsewhere: Google Cloud, Azure, Azure DevOps, Akamai, GitHub, Discord, Atlassian, Slack, Vercel, Heroku, and DigitalOcean all report normal operations. No notable BGP, DNS, or undersea cable issues were detected.

Sources: cloudflarestatus.com, health.aws.amazon.com, status.twilio.com, status.openai.com, status.cloud.google.com, azure.status.microsoft, githubstatus.com