- Oracle’s Ashburn data center crashed, taking TikTok with it
- US users had 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 several 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 impacting some parts of the TikTok user experience in the US,” reads a post on the official TikTok USDS JV X page, noting that some users have been experiencing delays when posting content.
Oracle also acknowledged the outage and attributed it to connection timeouts, 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 an update at 5:24 pm and the cause was identified at 12:44 am on March 4. The status page returned periodic “monitoring” updates starting at 7:03 a.m.
The issue was marked as “resolved” at 9:18 a.m. on March 4 after about two hours of monitoring, but Oracle has not explicitly confirmed what the root cause was.
Another problem on January 26 was the result of severe winter weather, which caused a power outage.
In context, Oracle’s ties to TikTok are much broader than simply serving as its primary cloud provider in the United States. It forms a group of investors who own 80% of the TikTok USDS joint venture after ByteDance was forced to divest its US operations in the interests of national security.
The American joint venture launched in January 2026, just weeks before it experienced its first Oracle-related outage.
Neither TikTok nor Oracle have released an update following the outage to confirm the full restore yet, but the data center restore is assumed to have fixed the issues on the user side.
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