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5d ago

TikTok’s U.S. App Hit by New Outage Tied to Oracle’s Ashburn Data Center

The incident is the second user-facing disruption since TikTok’s U.S. operations moved to a new Oracle-backed joint venture in January.

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Overview

  • TikTok USDS said an issue at an Oracle facility is affecting parts of the U.S. experience, with creators seeing lags when posting.
  • Oracle reported intermittent connection timeouts, errors, and higher latency in its US East (Ashburn) region and said it is working to restore service.
  • Outage reports on Downdetector spiked around 1PM ET, while Oracle’s status page shows the problem began at approximately 8:24 a.m. ET.
  • Both companies say remediation is underway, and Oracle has not identified a specific cause for today’s connectivity trouble.
  • The disruption follows a February incident that TikTok linked to a power loss at an Oracle data center, underscoring reliance on Oracle under the new U.S. governance structure.