- Oracle’s Ashburn data center went down, taking TikTok with it
- US users experienced problems sending content on the app
- This is Oracle’s second TikTok blunder since it took partial ownership
After TikTok went down in the US for a number of users, Oracle has been identified as the cause once again after being linked to another outage a month ago.
“An issue with an Oracle data center is affecting some parts of the TikTok US user experience,” reads a post on the official TikTok USDS JV X page, noting that some users have experienced delays when posting content.
Oracle also acknowledged the outage, attributing it to connection timeouts, errors and increased latency in its US Eastern (Ashburn) region.
Oracle is removing parts of TikTok again
Looking at Oracle’s status page, it appears that the “problem” was only identified at 13:24 UTC on March 3rd. The Ashburn site was identified in a 5:24 p.m. update, and the cause had been identified at 12:44 on March 4th. The status page returned regular “monitoring” updates from
The problem was marked as ‘solved’ at 9:18 a.m. on March 4 after about two hours of monitoring, but Oracle has not explicitly confirmed what the cause was.
A separate January 26 issue was the result of severe winter weather which caused a power outage.
For context, Oracle’s ties to TikTok are far greater than simply serving as its core cloud provider in the US. It forms a group of investors that own 80% of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture after ByteDance was forced to divest its US operations due to national security concerns.
The US joint venture was launched in January 2026, just weeks before it experienced its first Oracle-related outage.
Neither TikTok nor Oracle have sent an update after the outage to confirm full recovery yet, but it is believed that the data center recovery has resolved issues on the user end.
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