A major Cloudflare disruption on Friday triggered global outages across numerous websites and apps, leaving millions of users unable to access essential online services. The widespread connectivity issues quickly set off a flood of complaints on X, where frustrated users reported that several platforms had either slowed to a crawl or gone completely offline. 

The outage has disrupted several major platforms, including Canva, Groww, Zerodha and the outage-tracking service Downdetector, highlighting the extent of the infrastructure breakdown. Zerodha confirmed the issue, noting that “due to a cross-platform downtime on Cloudflare, Kite is currently unavailable,” and urged users to turn to the Kite WhatsApp backup “to manage your trades while we investigate.”

Users described being locked out of tools critical for work, business operations and day-to-day tasks, intensifying concerns over the reliability of the service.

This marks Cloudflare’s second significant outage in less than a month. In November, a similar disruption briefly destabilised major online platforms, including Spotify, ChatGPT and former US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, raising wider questions about digital infrastructure resilience.

As of now, Cloudflare has not issued an official statement on the cause of the problem. With services still disrupted for many, social media users continue to demand clarity and swift action, arguing that repeated failures are taking a tangible toll on productivity and online operations.

According to user reports shared on X, the latest wave of connectivity issues began on 5 December, impacting applications across multiple regions simultaneously.

Cloudflare, which supplies security, content delivery and traffic-management support for thousands of websites globally, sits between users and the services they access. As a result, even a single technical fault within the network can cause widespread outages across otherwise unrelated platforms.

The latest disruption comes amid a broader pattern of network instability. Just last month, major cloud providers Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services experienced significant outages that similarly affected a range of widely used online services.