Cloudflare Faces Third Major Outage This Month December 9 2025
Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure and security networks, has suffered yet another major outage — its third this month and the second disruption in just one week. The repeated downtime has triggered concerns across the tech world, with millions of users experiencing slowdowns, loading errors, and complete service failures on popular websites.
The outage affected a wide range of global platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), Substack, Canva, Spotify, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Bet365, and Grindr, according to reports from Down Detector. While many services began recovering around 9 a.m. EST, some users continued to report intermittent problems.
This marks the latest incident in a string of recurring outages. Cloudflare previously went down in November, causing widespread issues for workers and businesses worldwide. Another outage followed just days ago, raising questions about the company’s recent system stability.
As one of the most essential internet backbone providers, Cloudflare powers traffic for millions of websites, mirroring content across thousands of servers globally to improve speed and security. When Cloudflare experiences issues, the ripple effect can cripple large parts of the internet. Cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple has described these outages as causing “massive digital gridlock,” since Cloudflare sits between users and the websites they’re trying to reach.
The repeated outages have also caught the attention of investors. Cloudflare’s stock dropped nearly 6% during last week’s disruption before recovering most of its losses. After today’s incident, shares dipped again, though only slightly at 0.7%.
On its system status page, Cloudflare acknowledged the ongoing situation, stating: “Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.” A separate update confirmed an issue affecting SQLite Durable Objects and Workers/Pages builds between 8:50 UTC and 10:30 UTC.
Adding to the tech troubles, Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot also experienced downtime today, with more than 1,000 users reporting issues.
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