Another day, another worldwide outage of a critical online service that brings numerous websites (including several high-profile ones) down to their knees. This news comes hot on the heels of last month’s Amazon cloud outage, which took down everything from web services to Ring video doorbells to smart beds that cooked their owners.
This time, it’s Cloudflare’s turn. Cloudflare is a US-based company that operates hundreds of data centers, serves as a content delivery network for millions of websites, provides security and DDoS mitigation services for many of those websites, and a lot more.
As of this writing, the Cloudflare outage is causing issues on sites like X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, PayPal, and Uber, as well as online games like League of Legends and Valorant.
According to the Cloudflare System Status:
Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly. (Nov 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM EST)
Later, there was an update:
We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London. We are continuing to work towards restoring other services. (Nov 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM EST)
And the latest update as of this writing:
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. (Nov 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM EST)
Many sites are still affected and unavailable, but there should be an improvement soon as Cloudflare restores its services. It’s possible that maintenance work at a data center was responsible for the disruption, but more details are not yet known.
Tip: If you’re unable to use the above-mentioned services via their websites, try using their apps. It may be possible to access them that way. We can access the ChatGPT and X/Twitter apps without any problems, whereas access is currently not possible via their websites.
