What happened with Cloudflare?

Just like the AWS disruption, Cloudflare had a recent outage that hit millions, which proved once again that even the giants in the industry can still slip up.

The real takeaways

• Depending on a tiny group of providers creates massive single points of failure. One outage can effectively kneecap a big chunk of the internet.
• The low costs and easy-to-access security tools from these big platforms are great — until they slip. Then the impact rolls out instantly across the globe.
• Businesses need multi-provider setups, proper failover systems, and solid contingency planning if they want to avoid getting caught out the next time one of these giants falls over.

Cloudflare has bounced back from the hours-long disruption and confirmed there was nothing malicious behind it. Apologies were made, reassurance was given, but none of that changes the core problem: these outages are still painful for businesses and their customers.

The ongoing pattern: convenience now, pain later

The pattern keeps repeating because many organisations still don’t realise just how exposed they are. The trade-off is simple: costs stay low, performance stays high — but when a platform of this scale slips, everyone feels it at once.

Cloudflare supports hundreds of thousands of customers across more than 100 countries, acting as a buffer to keep sites online, manage traffic, and block attacks. When things go wrong, the ripple effect is huge and immediate, just like we’ve seen with other major providers.

All of this highlights one thing: relying on just a handful of companies to keep the internet running is a systemic risk. The web is now so tightly interconnected that a single outage can cause global disruption within minutes.

There’s also a growing issue where companies lean so heavily on centralised hosting that they effectively get to pass the blame upwards when things break. The more we centralise, the more fragile everything becomes. Decentralisation isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s the only realistic way to reduce this recurring fragility.

We hope you’ve liked this blog. Stay tuned for more blogs like this. Stay safe!