2026-05-01
We have completed a massive engineering effort to make our infrastructure more resilient. Through new tools like Snapstone and the Engineering Codex, we've implemented safer configuration changes and automated best practices to prevent future incidents....
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2026-04-28
The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in Internet disruptions, from nationwide shutdowns in Uganda and Iran to unprecedented drone strikes on cloud infrastructure. We explore the data behind these events using Cloudflare Radar....
2026-02-21
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)....
2026-01-26
The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weather, technical problems, and more....
2025-12-19
We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happens again....
December 15, 2025
We present our 6th annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances and metrics that defined 2025. ...
December 05, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused ...
November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected. ...
October 28, 2025
In Q3 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government directed shutdowns, power outages, cable cuts, a cyberattack, an earthquake, a fire, and technical problems, as well as several with unexplained causes....
September 30, 2025
On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services....
September 13, 2025
Cloudflare’s Dashboard and a set of related APIs were unavailable or partially available for an hour starting on Sep 12, 17:57 UTC. The outage did not affect the serving of cached files via the ...
August 22, 2025
On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain the details....
July 15, 2025
July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, causing downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver....
June 12, 2025
Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes on June 12, 2025....
April 28, 2025
A massive power outage struck significant portions of Portugal and Spain at 10:34 UTC on April 28, disrupting everyday activities and services....
March 25, 2025
On March 21, 2025, multiple Cloudflare services, including R2 object storage experienced an elevated rate of error responses. Here’s what caused the incident, the impact, and how we are making sure it...
February 07, 2025
On Thursday, February 6, 2025, we experienced an outage with our object storage service (R2) and products that rely on it. Here's what happened and what we're doing to fix this going forward....
December 09, 2024
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level....
November 20, 2024
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe. ...
October 30, 2024
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage....
