Cloudflare incident

R2 and Durable Objects increased errors in Eastern North America

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on May 16, 2026 affecting Durable Objects and R2 and 1 more component, lasting 3h 7m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 16, 2026, 01:55 AM UTC
Resolved
May 16, 2026, 05:03 AM UTC
Duration
3h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
May 16, 2026, 01:55 AM UTC

Affected components

Durable ObjectsR2Workflows

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 16, 2026, 01:55 AM UTC

    Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an increase of R2 and Durable Object errors in Eastern North America. We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

  2. investigating May 16, 2026, 02:07 AM UTC

    Customers may also see impact with Worker uploads with R2 bindings and when creating Workflow instances.

  3. monitoring May 16, 2026, 02:27 AM UTC

    The increase in errors are resolved and the services are stable again. Customers using Queues, Cache Reserve and Cache Purge API may have also been impacted.

  4. resolved May 16, 2026, 05:03 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.