Cloudflare Maintenance for core backend database systems (cfdb)

THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Aug 29, 08:55 - 11:05 UTC

Aug 5, 08:57 UTC
Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled maintenance on core backend database systems on 2026-08-29, in two back-to-back windows, as part of an ongoing database upgrade to improve performance, security, and reliability.

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09:00–10:00 UTC — Zone & account configuration: Configuration write operations made via the Dashboard, API, or tools such as Terraform may fail for up to 3 minutes. This includes:

Zone management (creating, updating, deleting zones)
Zone settings (security level, SSL mode, caching, and other zone-level config)
SSL/TLS certificate management
Page Rules
Firewall Rules
Load Balancing configuration
10:00–11:00 UTC — Identity & access management (IAM): Configuration write operations made via the Dashboard or API may fail for up to 3 minutes. This includes:

User & membership management (inviting or removing members)
Role & permission changes
API token & credential management (creating or revoking tokens and keys)
Resource Group changes
OAuth authorization & consent flows (granting third-party app access)
SSO & SCIM provisioning - automated user provisioning from your identity provider
The Cloudflare network will continue to proxy traffic and nameservers will continue to respond to DNS queries throughout this maintenance. Read-only operations, existing configurations, and existing access are not affected.

We will post updates on this page before, during, and after each window.

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