Outage of Cloudflare Content Delivery Network Disrupts Major Internet Sites UPDATE4

The American content delivery network (CDN) and IT service management company, Cloudflare, appears to be suffering from a major global outage. This is currently disrupting connectivity to some of the internet’s most popular websites (e.g. X, ChatGPT, Digital Scotland, Tinyurl.com’s anti-abuse system etc.) and many smaller online services too.

The situation, which appears to have started at around 11:20am today, has been steadily propagating sporadically across the internet and causing websites that use Cloudflare’s services to spit out Error 500 (Internet Server Errors) messages on a holding page (pictured), albeit not due to the website itself but rather a failure within Cloudflare’s platform.

According to Cloudflare’s service status page: “Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.” But at 12:21pm, the provider added that they were starting to “see services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts“.

The situation bears some similarities to last month’s major global outage of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-platform (here), although at first glance the disruption doesn’t appear to have lasted as long or been as disruptive as that. But that may depend upon how things progress over the next few minutes or hours.

UPDATE 1:07pm

A number of websites and services did briefly come back to life for a few minutes, before promptly falling over again just a moment ago. The impacts appear to be quite sporadic and variable.

UPDATE 1:17pm

The latest update from Cloudflare suggests some progress is being made.

Update – Nov 18, 2025 – 13:13 UTC

We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates.
We have re-enabled WARP access in London.

We are continuing to work towards restoring other services.

UPDATE 2:25pm

Cloudflare has just said they’re “continuing to work on a fix for this issue“, which over the past hour seems to have returned yet again for many sites and online services. For those who can’t access DownDetector‘s website due to the same problem, here is the current graph of reports:

UPDATE 2:42pm

Quite a few websites just returned to life and Cloudflare has posted the following update: “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.”

The catch is that some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard.