- Oracle’s Ashburn data center crashed, taking TikTok down with it
- US users were having issues posting content to the app
- This is Oracle’s second mistake on TikTok since it took partial ownership
After TikTok went down in the US for a number of users, Oracle was once again identified as the cause after being linked to another outage a month ago.
“An issue with an Oracle data center is impacting parts of the TikTok user experience in the United States,” read a post on the official TikTok USDS JV X page, noting that some users experienced delays when posting content.
Oracle also acknowledged the outage, attributing it to connection delays, errors and increased latency in its US East (Ashburn) region.
Oracle removes parts of TikTok again
Looking at Oracle’s status page, it appears that the “issue” was first identified at 1:24 PM UTC on March 3rd. The Ashburn site was identified in a 5:24 p.m. update and the cause was identified at 12:44 a.m. on March 4. The status page returned regular “monitoring” updates starting at 7:03 a.m.
The issue was marked as “resolved” on March 4 at 9:18 a.m., after about two hours of monitoring, but Oracle has not explicitly confirmed what the root cause was.
Another issue on January 26 was the result of severe winter conditions, which caused a power outage.
As a reminder, Oracle’s ties to TikTok go well beyond simply being the leading cloud provider in the United States. This is a group of investors that owns 80% of the TikTok USDS joint venture after ByteDance was forced to divest its US operations in the interests of national security.
The US joint venture launched in January 2026, just weeks before experiencing its first Oracle-related outage.
Neither TikTok nor Oracle have yet released an update after the outage to confirm the full restoration, but it is assumed that the data center restoration resolved the issues on the user’s side.
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