CLOUDFLARE OUTAGE ONGOING AS WIDESPREAD INTERNET OUTAGES SPREAD

Tue 18 November 2025:

A widespread Cloudflare outage on November 18, disrupted access to several major online platforms including OpenAI, Twitter (X), Spotify, Canva, Calude and other big platforms leaving millions of users unable to connect.

The incident highlights the critical role Cloudflare plays in powering the backbone of internet via its content delivery and security services. Cloudflare outage: Here’s what happened As per Cloudflare’s official status page, multiple datacenters across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America experienced scheduled maintenance and re-routing issues.

While Cloudflare described the disruptions as part of ongoing maintenance windows, traffic rerouting led to latency spikes and temporary unavailability for end-users in affected regions.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that offers many of the core technologies that power today’s online experiences. That includes tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic, for instance.

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“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said in a new update. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”

Tracking website Down Detector, which monitors outage, was also hit by the technical problems itself. But when it loaded it showed a dramatic spike in problems.

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