Internet Status — July 16, 2026: No Widespread Outage; Google Cloud Zone Incident and Scattered Provider Issues
No internet-wide disruptions are ongoing today, but several provider-specific incidents are active or recovering.
Google Cloud is experiencing an ongoing zonal outage in europe-west4-a (Netherlands) caused by a cooling failure, affecting Bare Metal Solution, NetApp Volumes, and VMware Engine since late July 15 UTC ([Google Cloud status](status.cloud.google.com)). This is zonal in scope — other regions and zones are unaffected.
GitHub reported a disruption with some services early on July 16 (investigation began 09:13 UTC); the degradation has been mitigated and GitHub is monitoring for stability ([GitHub status](githubstatus.com)). OpenAI is working on elevated error rates for SSO login affecting ChatGPT and the API ([OpenAI status](status.openai.com)), and Vercel is separately investigating SAML SSO login errors that began at 08:39 UTC ([Vercel status](vercel-status.com)).
Smaller items: Akamai mitigated an overnight Application Load Balancer availability issue and reports the service resuming normal operations. Cloudflare resolved elevated R2 error rates early today (04:49 UTC) and Hong Kong datacenter 502 errors on July 15; a remaining minor issue is limited to Magic WAN/Magic Transit tunnel health alert notifications, with traffic unaffected ([Cloudflare status](cloudflarestatus.com)). Twilio is monitoring recovering SMS delivery delays to several carriers, including MTN Nigeria, Liberty Puerto Rico, and Vodafone Australia.
In the US, crowd-sourced trackers showed morning report spikes for Spectrum and CenturyLink, consistent with regional ISP issues rather than a broader problem. AWS, Azure, Slack, Zoom, Discord, Stripe, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and Atlassian all report normal operations; Fastly's status page could not be checked directly, but aggregate monitors show no outage signals. No BGP or routing incidents of note were detected today.
Bottom line: scattered provider-level incidents, most already mitigated or recovering — the internet is up.