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Cloudflare Restored Connectivity After Nearly Three-Hour Outage in North America

On October 23, a network incident affected some Cloudflare customers in North America. The provider reported the issue was resolved. We explain who should check task queues and incomplete operations.

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On October 23, 2026, Cloudflare detected network issues in North America: some customers experienced latency, packet loss, and intermittent errors. The incident began at 18:47 MSK and was resolved at 21:43 MSK, lasting 2 hours and 56 minutes. Website owners and integrations using the affected services should verify operations that may have remained incomplete.

What the Provider Confirmed

In the official incident card, Cloudflare first reported degraded connectivity between data centers in Ashburn and Atlanta. Among the possible manifestations were errors in Workers and other services in the eastern United States. Later, the company linked the issue to an outage at a communications provider, which caused network congestion for some customers in North America.

Cloudflare rerouted traffic around the affected segments. At 20:03 MSK, the provider reported a renewed failure of an infrastructure supplier; at 21:18 MSK, it confirmed no observable packet loss after route changes. The final status "resolved" was set at 21:43 MSK.

The report describes a regional network incident. There is no basis in this article to extend it to all Cloudflare sites, classify it as a global DNS outage, or confirm it as a cyberattack. The number of affected customers is not specified.

Who Should Check the Consequences

First, teams whose website, request handler, or external service uses Cloudflare in the affected region. For a Russian store, connectivity is possible via a foreign API or a separate integration; a Russian company address alone does not indicate the request route. Dependencies must be determined based on the application architecture and your own logs.

What to do after restoration

  • Match error times with the 18:47–21:43 MSK interval on October 23. A time match aids verification but does not establish the cause on its own.
  • Check background task queues, notification delivery, and order exchanges with external systems. Determine which operations completed and which are still pending.
  • Before resending, verify the operation status with the recipient. This is especially critical for payments and order creation: resending without verification can create duplicates.
  • Check the availability of required functions from regions where your customers operate. If errors persist, provide support with the time, region, and request identifiers, excluding passwords and access keys.

These actions are editorial recommendations for systems with confirmed dependencies. There is no need to migrate the site, change DNS records, or disable protection solely based on another party's regional incident: the solution depends on the state of your specific system.

Information is current as of October 24, 2026, 00:10 MSK. The source of facts about the incident is the official Cloudflare status page. Status at the time of checking: resolved.

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