Oracle outage briefly knocks parts of TikTok offline in US
Mar 20th 2026
An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure outage in the US East region on March 3 briefly disrupted parts of TikTok's US service under the TikTok USDS joint venture; Oracle reported recovery and marked the incident resolved on March 4.
- Oracle reported OCI connection timeouts, errors, and increased latency in the US East Ashburn region starting at 13:24 UTC on March 3.
- The incident caused intermittent disruptions to TikTok US because Oracle hosts US user data under the TikTok USDS joint venture in which Oracle owns 15 percent.
- Oracle identified the root cause at 00:44 UTC and said service health metrics showed recovery by 07:03 UTC on March 4, with the incident marked resolved at 09:24 UTC.
- This is the second Oracle-related TikTok disruption in about a month after a winter storm knocked out one of Oracle's datacenters.
- Users reported posting delays and criticized the length of the outage on social media while Oracle worked to restore services.
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