Early Tuesday morning UK time, Cloudflare identified a fault affecting its global network, causing widespread disruption to website access and performance dashboards. According to the company, the problem began around 11:48 AM London time and was mitigated by 2:48 PM, though monitoring continues.
The outage amplified concerns about concentration risk: many major sites rely on Cloudflare’s infrastructure for DNS, DDoS protection and CDN services. Platforms ranging from social networks to corporate portals experienced cascading effects—downtimes, slow performance, or errors. Analysts warn that even brief disruptions at critical intermediaries can ripple across digital ecosystems. The incident may prompt regulators and companies to reassess resilience strategies, redundancy planning and vendor diversity.