Internet Status β May 7, 2026: Minor Incidents, No Widespread Outage
The internet is broadly healthy today, with no major cross-provider outages detected. A handful of localized or low-severity incidents are worth noting.
Cloudflare is tracking two ongoing items: a Bot Management degraded-performance issue (rules 50331648 and 50331649 matching traffic unexpectedly since April 1 β a fix is in place and detections are expected to stabilize within 48 hours), and a backlog of Cloudflare Access audit logs from April 28β29 that engineering is still processing. No data has been lost. A scheduled maintenance window in the MontrΓ©al (YUL) datacenter ran between 05:00β12:00 UTC, and a separate Cloudflare One Connectivity issue is being investigated for users connecting through the Chicago datacenter.
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and OpenAI status pages all report normal operations. No broadly-impactful BGP incidents, DNS failures, or undersea cable disruptions have been reported.
In the past 72 hours, the most notable consumer-facing incident was a Workday outage on May 4 affecting thousands of users (now resolved). UK fibre ISP YouFibre also saw a spike in user reports earlier today around 10:10 BST.
Overall: the internet is up. A few isolated issues are being actively worked on, but no widespread disruption is in progress.
Sources: cloudflarestatus.com, status.cloud.google.com, azure.status.microsoft, status.openai.com, thousandeyes.com/outages.