Internet Status — August 3, 2026: Core Infrastructure Healthy, Isolated Incidents Continue
No widespread internet disruption is underway today. Core routing, DNS and the major cloud and CDN platforms are operating normally, with a small number of geographically contained incidents still open.
Cloud providers: Google Cloud reports no broad severe incidents, and Microsoft Azure shows no active events across all regions. AWS global services are operating normally, but two regions remain out of service: ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) are still unavailable following conflict-related physical damage to facilities earlier this year. AWS has suspended billing in the affected regions and advises customers to recover resources elsewhere from remote backups; the company has said restoration is expected to take several months. This is an ongoing situation rather than a new development, and it does not affect AWS regions outside the Middle East.
CDN and edge: Cloudflare is operational, with routine scheduled maintenance in progress at San Jose (SJC) and Miami (MIA) and further windows queued for Ashburn, London and Berlin. Traffic may be re-routed away from those locations with minor added latency — normal maintenance behavior, not an outage. Akamai reports all systems operational.
Platforms: GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Slack, Atlassian, Vercel, DigitalOcean and Heroku all report normal operation. Meta platforms are up, though background user reports continue at typical levels for their scale. Zoom has several services in scheduled maintenance windows, including network maintenance at its Vancouver datacenter.
Still open: Twilio is tracking a cluster of narrow, carrier-specific incidents — SMS delivery delays affecting Econet Burundi, Metfone Cambodia, Unitel Angola and Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico, plus voice call failures to Reliance Jio in India and one US carrier. These are limited to individual carrier routes rather than Twilio-wide.
Resolved in the past 72 hours: Akamai mitigated a partial Edge Delivery disruption causing HTTP/HTTPS errors on August 1. Crowd-sourced trackers also logged report spikes for Verizon and World of Warcraft on August 2; both have since settled.
Coverage note: Downdetector, Fastly's status page and ThousandEyes' outage map were unreachable during this check, and Stripe's status page returned stale data. We found no independent indication of problems at those providers, but our visibility into them today is incomplete.
Sources: <a href="https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status">AWS Health</a>, <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/">Google Cloud Status</a>, <a href="https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status">Azure Status</a>, <a href="https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/">Cloudflare Status</a>, <a href="https://www.akamaistatus.com/">Akamai Status</a>, <a href="https://www.githubstatus.com/">GitHub Status</a>, <a href="https://status.twilio.com/">Twilio Status</a>, <a href="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/shutdowns/">Internet Society Pulse</a>.