Cloudflare Outage Affects Newark, NJ Data Center Operations
DATA AND AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Cloudflare experienced an outage at its Newark, NJ data center on February 16, causing elevated latency for some HTTP requests. The company confirmed the issue at 10:19 UTC and began investigating. By 12:02 UTC, they identified the problem and started working on a fix.
This outage coincided with issues faced by X and AWS, although their connection remains unclear. Previous global outages for Cloudflare in November 2025 affected several major platforms, but DCD and SDxCentral were unaffected in this incident.

Feb 17, 2026, 11:41 AM