Major Platforms Go Down for 30 Minutes

Cloudflare apologised after a Friday morning outage briefly took down LinkedIn, Zoom, Downdetector, Canva, Shopify and India-based Groww. Nearly 28% of Cloudflare’s traffic was affected, and the issue was fixed within 30 minutes.

Firewall Update Triggered the Issue

The company said the outage occurred after a firewall update designed to protect users from a new software vulnerability. Cloudflare confirmed that the disruption was not caused by a cyberattack.

Second Major Outage in a Month

This incident follows a larger outage in mid-November that impacted X, OpenAI, Spotify and several gaming platforms. Experts say repeated outages may push companies to reconsider overdependence on Cloudflare.

Concerns Over Internet Centralisation

Cybersecurity experts warn that heavy reliance on a few major infrastructure providers makes the internet more vulnerable. When Cloudflare or AWS fail, the global impact is immediate.

Outage Highlights Cloudflare’s Massive Reach

Despite the disruptions, analysts note that such outages also show Cloudflare’s huge scale—serving nearly 20% of global websites and handling billions of cyberattacks daily.