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2026-02-17 11:04 UTCIncidents Detected

Internet Status — February 17, 2026: Recovering From Yesterday's Cloudflare BGP Cascade

The internet is largely stable today following yesterday's significant cascading outage.

On February 16, a BGP routing misconfiguration during a routine update at Cloudflare's Ashburn, Virginia data center triggered a cascading failure that took down portions of AWS, X (Twitter), and thousands of other services for approximately four hours. Cloudflare engineers identified the root cause within 40 minutes, but recovery required coordinating with over a dozen upstream providers to flush corrupted BGP caches. Full service was restored by Sunday evening.

X (Twitter) experienced a separate outage spike on February 16-17, with over 41,000 reports on Downdetector. Users reported blank timelines, infinite loading, and error messages. The platform stabilized by early February 17. This marks X's third major outage in 2026.

Today, Cloudflare is conducting scheduled maintenance at its Atlanta (07:00-13:00 UTC) and Portland (14:00-23:59 UTC) data centers, which may cause minor latency increases in those regions. Cloudflare's Newark facility is also showing elevated HTTP latency and degraded Data Loss Prevention (DLP) performance since February 16.

Virgin Media reported localized connectivity issues for some UK users starting around 7:11 AM BST.

AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure are reporting no major active incidents as of February 17. The AWS CloudFront issues from February 10-11 and the cascading impact from yesterday's Cloudflare incident have been fully resolved.

Overall, the internet is operational with residual effects from yesterday's Cloudflare BGP incident still being monitored. No new widespread outages are in progress.

Sources: Cloudflare Status (cloudflarestatus.com), Downdetector, Tom's Guide, Dataconomy, WebProNews, BleepingComputer

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