Cloudflare’s 2025 outages expose fragility in internet infrastructure
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Technical leader addressing recurrent 2026 outages via public apologies and explanations
From November 2025 through February 2026, Cloudflare suffered multiple major global outages, including a three-hour disruption on November 18, 2025, a 25–30 minute WAF misconfiguration incident on December 5, 2025, a BGP routing failure on January 22, 2026, and edge network instability on February 4, 2026. These events temporarily took down services like LinkedIn, Zoom, Shopify, Coinbase, ChatGPT, X, Spotify, and others that rely on Cloudflare’s edge network, content delivery, and security services, affecting an estimated significant portion of global HTTP traffic during peaks.
Updated Feb 5
