Current answer
Cloudflare experienced a minor incident: Increased errors for R2 and Tiered Cache. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Nov 14, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Chicago, United States - (ORD)
R2
Newark, United States - (EWR)
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
Starting at 05:00 UTC, a network connectivity issue between several Cloudflare data centers caused a small percentage of requests to fail. R2 customers may have seen HTTP 500 errors, and requests for content served through Tiered Cache may have returned 520, 522 or 524 errors. Customers in Chicago and Newark saw the highest error rates, and other locations were affected at lower rates. Error rates have dropped close to normal levels since 05:30 UTC. We are continuing to monitor while the underlying network issue is resolved.
Nov 14, 2026 at 5:43 AM UTC
Investigating
Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue with R2. Customers in Chicago, IL, may see 503 errors when using R2. We are currently investigating this issue.
Nov 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM UTC
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