# \[ICM-5598\] Planned Maintenance on the Imperva data center in Cape Town, South Africa

- Provider: [Imperva](https://down.guide/providers/imperva)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Maintenance
- lasted 1h 34m
- started 2026-11-08 22:00 UTC
- Cape Town, South Africa (CPT)
- id: DWN-0c5809808e
- Official page: https://stspg.io/wdlmjp2n4rqj

## Summary
Imperva says planned maintenance at its Cape Town, South Africa data center started November 8, 2026 at 22:00 UTC, after being moved from October 25. Its latest update says verification of the maintenance items is underway, and the incident is marked resolved.

_Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from Imperva's own updates._

## Updates from Imperva
### 2026-10-09 03:04 UTC: scheduled
Maintenance on the Cape Town, South Africa data center will be performed on Sunday, October 25th, 2026 at 22:00 UTC. We expect to complete the maintenance by Monday, October 26th, 2026 at 02:00 UTC.
For Cloud WAF customers, Imperva will reroute traffic to the closest data center for the duration of the maintenance, with no expected interruption of Cloud WAF services.
DDoS Protection for Networks customers must ensure that the advertisement of their ranges via alternate connection such as GRE tunnels and Cross-Connects is in place prior to the start of maintenance to avoid interruption of service.
The link to Imperva's documentation can be found here: https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/cloud-application-security/page/network-ddos/maintenance-prep.htm

### 2026-10-23 04:39 UTC: scheduled
Maintenance on the Cape Town, South Africa data center will be performed on Sunday, November 8th, 2026 at 22:00 UTC. We expect to complete the maintenance by Monday, November 9th, 2026 at 02:00 UTC.
For Cloud WAF customers, Imperva will reroute traffic to the closest data center for the duration of the maintenance, with no expected interruption of Cloud WAF services.
DDoS Protection for Networks customers must ensure that the advertisement of their ranges via alternate connection such as GRE tunnels and Cross-Connects is in place prior to the start of maintenance to avoid interruption of service.
The link to Imperva's documentation can be found here: https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/cloud-application-security/page/network-ddos/maintenance-prep.htm

### 2026-11-08 21:00 UTC: scheduled
Maintenance will begin as scheduled in 60 minutes.

### 2026-11-08 22:00 UTC: in\_progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

### 2026-11-08 23:18 UTC: verifying
Verification is currently underway for the maintenance items.

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