Cloudflare Outage Throws a Wrench in Global Internet Access

Major Service Provider's Temporary Disruption Follows Big AWS Outage Last Month Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • November 18, 2025

Websites worldwide faced intermittent outages Tuesday due to an ongoing problem with technology giant Cloudflare.

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Cloudflare's outage on Tuesday disrupted access to a vast array of offerings, from OpenAI, bet365 and X - formerly Twitter - to Grindr, telecoms Virgin Media and EE, and Spotify, according to Downdetector, which crowdsources when users report difficulty accessing a given site. Even when the skeleton of a homepage displayed, in many cases essential content still failed to load. For a while, Downdetector, owned by publisher Ziff Davis, itself remained unreachable.

San Francisco-based Cloudflare has yet to state what triggered the outage, although reported roughly three hours into the incident that it had put a fix ...