Another Cloudflare Outage Raises Fresh Concerns

Cloudflare has suffered its second major service outage in less than a month, briefly taking a substantial portion of the internet offline and prompting renewed questions about the resilience of the infrastructure many organisations now rely on.

Friday 5 December Outage

This latest incident occurred on Friday 5 December, when websites around the world began returning blank pages, stalled login screens and 500 error messages from around 08:47 GMT. Cloudflare confirmed that the problem affected part of its global network and that a significant number of high profile customers were impacted. Although services were largely restored by 09:12, the disruption was extensive enough to affect millions of users and thousands of online businesses during a busy weekday morning.