Cloudflare Suffers Global Outage

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A widespread internet outage disrupted access to major websites and services worldwide after Cloudflare — a key provider of internet infrastructure and security — experienced a significant system failure today (Dec. 5).

The incident began around 09:00 UTC, exposing the fragility of a digital ecosystem that depends heavily on a small number of centralized service providers. The outage affected much of the web with X, Substack, Canva, LinkedIn, Deliveroo, Spotify, Downdetector, and others going down.

This latest event follows hot on the heels of Nov. 18, when Cloudflare was hit by a global outage for several hours.

Widespread impact

Cloudflare acknowledged today’s problem on its status page, attributing the issues to Dashboard and API service issues ...