Internet Outage Chaos: Global Networks Crippled Again

Cloudflare experienced a global outage, affecting major internet platforms. This incident is one of several notable tech outages in recent years, alongside disruptions faced by Amazon, British Airways, Fastly, Akamai, Meta, X Corp, CrowdStrike, and AWS, highlighting vulnerabilities in the digital infrastructure.

On Tuesday, web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare suffered a global outage that rendered key internet platforms like X and ChatGPT inaccessible. This marks the second major disruption this year following AWS's malfunction in October. Such outages reveal ongoing vulnerabilities within the digital infrastructure.

In recent years, significant tech outages have disrupted operations across various sectors. Notably, a British Airways computer system failure in May 2017 left 75,000 passengers stranded, while Google's YouTube, Gmail, and Drive services went down globally for an hour in December 2020. Fastly's hour-long outage in June 2021 affected myriad global platforms including Reddit and CNN.

More recently, X Corp's Twitter outage in December 2022 and Meta's Facebook-owned platforms blackout in October 2021 have highlighted how reliant the world is on consistent digital services. The trend continued with CrowdStrike's software update mishap in July 2024 and AWS's outage in October 2025, further pressuring companies to prioritize network reliability.

(With inputs from agencies.)