Internet Status — February 20, 2026: Minor Cloudflare Incidents; X Recovers from Earlier Outage
Cloudflare is experiencing several minor active incidents today. The Newark (EWR) datacenter has elevated HTTP request latency, Workers AI is seeing higher error rates (a fix has been deployed and is being monitored), and the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) service has degraded performance. Additionally, Cloudflare is performing scheduled maintenance across five US datacenters (St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis, Columbus, and Houston), which may cause slight latency increases in those regions.
X (formerly Twitter) experienced another outage earlier today, with over 77,000 users reporting issues on Downdetector. The homepage failed to load for many users. Services have since been restored and X is operating normally as of late evening.
All major cloud providers are reporting normal operations. AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure show no active incidents. GitHub and OpenAI are fully operational.
This has been a turbulent week for internet infrastructure. The Feb 16 Cloudflare BGP routing incident — caused by a misconfigured automated deployment in Ashburn, Virginia — cascaded across the internet, affecting AWS, X, and thousands of websites for hours. X suffered a massive global outage the same day. AWS CloudFront had DNS resolution failures on Feb 10 that impacted 20+ downstream platforms. The internet has largely stabilized, though Cloudflare continues to work through residual issues.
Sources: cloudflarestatus.com, status.cloud.google.com, azure.status.microsoft, health.aws.amazon.com, status.openai.com, Downdetector, istheservicedown.com