The F5 Distributed Cloud engineering team continues to make progress toward restoring the Melbourne (ME1) Regional Edge, and restoration efforts remain on track. Proactive monitoring is in place to help maintain service continuity across the region during this process.
We appreciate your patience and will provide further updates as restoration progresses.
Posted Oct 06, 2026 - 21:43 UTC
Identified
Our F5 Distributed Cloud engineering team continues to work on the restoration of the Melbourne (ME1) Regional Edge. Restoration activities remain on track, and additional updates will be provided as progress is made. The engineering team has enabled a proactive monitoring stage to ensure service continuity throughout the region. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.
Posted Oct 05, 2026 - 23:36 UTC
Update
We are currently investigating a hardware issue within our Melbourne region. Customer traffic continues to route normally over secondary paths.
Our network engineering team is actively working with hardware vendor support to complete diagnostic procedures.
We will share further updates as more information becomes available.
Posted Oct 05, 2026 - 16:30 UTC
Investigating
This advisory is to inform you that we are currently investigating reports of service degradation affecting Melbourne.
We understand this may be affecting your operations and we are committed to providing transparent and timely updates as more information becomes available. While we gather more information, we recommend monitoring the progress on this site (https://www.f5cloudstatus.com/) for the latest update.
Investigation Status: • We have identified potential service impact at 03:42 PM UTC • Our incident response team has been fully mobilized; • Initial investigation and impact assessment efforts are underway. Next Steps: • A detailed incident notification will be provided within 30 minutes; • Our teams are working to determine the root cause of the incident; • We will share mitigation steps as soon as they become available.
We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this situation. If you are experiencing a critical business impact, please contact our support team through your established channels.
Thank you for your continued support and trust in F5.
Posted Oct 05, 2026 - 15:46 UTC
This incident affects: Oceania PoPs (Melbourne, Australia).