Fastly outage, November 2026: Retrospective: Impacted Performance in Auckland (AKL), Ashburn (IAD), Atlanta (PDK), Boston (BOS), Chicago (CHI), Columbus (CMH), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Detroit (DTW), Dubai (DXB), Los Angeles (BUR), Miami (MIA), Minneapolis (MSP), Montreal (YUL), New York (LGA), Newark (EWR), Palo Alto (PAO),

Fastly reported and resolved an incident: Retrospective: Impacted Performance in Auckland (AKL), Ashburn (IAD), Atlanta (PDK), Boston (BOS), Chicago (CHI), Columbus (CMH), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Detroit (DTW), Dubai (DXB), Los Angeles (BUR), Miami (MIA), Minneapolis (MSP), Montreal (YUL), New York (LGA), Newark (EWR), Palo Alto (PAO), . It lasted 1.1 hours.

Resolved

From Fastly's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.1 hours
Impact
none
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Fastly has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

Fastly marked it resolved at 4 Nov 2026, 1:10 pm without a written explanation of the fix.

This incident on the Fastly status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Fastly's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    Between 00:21 UTC and 00:24 UTC on November 4, 2026, we experienced a performance impact to the Auckland (AKL), Ashburn (IAD), Atlanta (PDK), Boston (BOS), Chicago (CHI), Columbus (CMH), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Detroit (DTW), Dubai (DXB), Los Angeles (BUR), Miami (MIA), Minneapolis (MSP), Montreal (YUL), New York (LGA), Newark (EWR), Palo Alto (PAO), Portland (PDX), San Jose (SJC), Seattle (BFI), Toronto (YYZ), New York (NYC), Los Angeles (LAX), Los Angeles (HHR), Jacksonville (JAX) Point of Presence (POPs). During this time, customers may have experienced elevated errors and latency. The issue has been resolved, and n o other POPs or services were affected. The issue has been resolved, and all services are operating normally.

  2. resolved

    This event has been resolved.

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