Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
from content delivery and DDoS protection to DNS services. When Cloudflare has an outage, it doesn't just affect one company; it impacts a Dane Knecht / @dok2001 : You can read the details of what went wrong this morning in the post below. We let the Internet down again today; We're locking down all changes in order to ensure we have better mitigation and rollback systems before we begin any again. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ... @anakin : Cloudflare is down again, two weeks after breaking the internet. Hetzner must be printing money. [image] @cloudflare : Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC, for approximately 25 minutes. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. Here's what happened: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ... Artem Russakovskii / @artemr : @Cloudflare @eastdakota The post mortem for the 25-minute @Cloudflare outage from last night. https://x.com/... LinkedIn: Harshit Maurya : ⚠️ What happened at Cloudflare yesterday? — Around 08:47 UTC, a massive chunk of the internet—including Zerodha, Canva, X, and Spotify—suddenly started failing with 500 errors. … Bluesky: @swiftonsecurity.com : To be fair to Cloudflare, this incident is bit different. Context: There is a massive software vulnerability recently released in a web platform that most teams are not gonna get to fast enough or know and there's gonna be a lot of victims — But they did screw up. — blog.cloudflare.com/5-december- 2... Threads: Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : It's sad to see Cloudflare going down again, but in this day and age there's really no excuse for a big Internet company not to be using a CDN. Mastodon: @ngate@mastodon.social : Ah, #Cloudflare, the self-proclaimed internet savior, decided to take a 25-minute #nap on December 5, 2025, leaving 28% of their HTTP traffic in a state of existential dread. 😴🔌 But fear not, dear reader, their blog was quick to remind us that their corporate jargon is as resilient as ever. … Forums: r/rust : Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 r/CloudFlare : Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 r/rustjerk : This is a straightforward error in the code, which had existed undetected for many years. This type of code error is prevented by languages with strong type systems. …