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Outage in Fastly

Cape Town (CPT), Johannesburg (JNB) with Possible Impact

Resolved Minor
October 27, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 2 hours

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Fastly experienced errors and increased latency affecting its Johannesburg (JNB) Point of Presence, with Cape Town (CPT) briefly impacted between 14:35 and 14:54 UTC before fully recovering. Engineers identified the root cause, implemented a fix, and began gradually restoring traffic to the Johannesburg site. The incident lasted approximately 2.5 hours, with services stabilizing as traffic was returned to the affected POP.

We are investigating an issue causing errors and increased latency for our network services in the Johannesburg (JNB) Point of Presence (POP).Please note that customers in the Cape Town (CPT)  POP were temporarily impacted by this issue between 14:35 and 14:54 UTC; however, services in CPT have since fully recovered.Our engineers are actively working to diagnose the contributing factor.We will provide another update as more information becomes available or within the next hour.

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2 days ago - at 10/27/2026 05:28PM

[in progress]
Our engineers have taken steps to recover the affected systems in the Johannesburg (JNB) Point of Presence (POP) and are gradually returning traffic to the site.We are observing a gradual restoration of services, though some customers may continue to experience intermittent issues as the system stabilizes.Customers in the Cape Town (CPT) POP were temporarily impacted between 14:35 and 14:54 UTC. Services in CPT have since fully recovered.Our team is actively monitoring the recovery and will post another update once services are fully restored.

2 days ago - at 10/27/2026 04:09PM

Our engineers have identified the contributing factor causing the issue impacting our network services in the Johannesburg (JNB) Point of Presence (POP).Our engineers are now developing a fix, and we will post a new update once it has been fully implemented and we see signs of recovery.Customers in the Cape Town (CPT) POP were temporarily impacted between 14:35 and 14:54 UTC. Services in CPT have since fully recovered.All other products and services remain unaffected by this incident.

2 days ago - at 10/27/2026 03:46PM

We are investigating an issue causing errors and increased latency for our network services in the Johannesburg (JNB) Point of Presence (POP).Please note that customers in the Cape Town (CPT)  POP were temporarily impacted by this issue between 14:35 and 14:54 UTC; however, services in CPT have since fully recovered.Our engineers are actively working to diagnose the contributing factor.We will provide another update as more information becomes available or within the next hour.

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