Cloudflare is down affecting millions of websites as the platform is suffering technical issues which is affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), PayPal, X, and OpenAI, Spotify users are also reporting problems.
There is more than 39 million websites on Cloudflare’s network and the system has a patchy network, it works then it stops which could cost businesses millions in lost advertising.
Cloudflare is one of the largest networks on the internet and people and businesses use the system for web application security and performance.
It protects internet infrastructure from cyber-attacks to ensure websites stay online, issues started at around 11am UK time and DownDetector reports more than 7,000 reports had been raised at the time.
Cloudflare said in a statement, “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.”
“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”
Rowan O’Donoghue, Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder at Origina said, “The most likely cause of this huge global disruption is almost certainly a boring, explainable engineering mistake or failure in a central system from one single company.
“It shows how the digital world is tethered to a handful of hyperscalers and infrastructure giants. When one goes down, businesses everywhere suffer – and today’s Cloudflare outage proves it.
“This isn’t just about inconvenience; it’s about systemic risk. Vendor lock-in and forced upgrade cycles have created fragile ecosystems that prioritise scale over resilience.
“The future shouldn’t be ‘cloud-first’ – it should be choice-first. Businesses need strategies that reduce dependency, retain control, and balance innovation with stability.
“Choice is power. Outages like this are a stark reminder why we should be rethinking how we build digital infrastructure moving forward.”
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