By Richard Speed
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 11:44:00
An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which succeeds AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Market share but counts the social media giant among its customers.
Big Red reported an issue on March 3rd at 1324 UTC Status page: “Customers may experience intermittent connection timeouts, errors, and increased latency when attempting to perform OCI service operations.”
The glitch affected the company’s US East (Ashburn) region, and as March 3 rolled into March 4, Oracle engineers worked to understand what happened and how to fix the problem. At 0703 UTC on March 4, the company confirmed that “service health metrics show recovery” after identifying the root cause and taking corrective action at 0044 UTC.
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