Cloudflare Outage Today Knocks Major Global Websites Offline

Cloudflare outage today disrupted Canva, LinkedIn, Groww, Coinbase and more, marking the second major service failure in three weeks as the company rolls out a fix

A fresh wave of disruptions hit the internet on Friday when the Cloudflare outage today impacted dozens of globally used platforms and rendered them inaccessible for users across multiple regions. Popular services such as Canva, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Notion, Groww, SpaceX, Zerodha, and Coinbase went down simultaneously, with the message “500 Internal Server Error (Cloudflare)”. Even the outage-tracking platform Downdetector failed to load, showing the extent and depth of the issue.

This is the second major Cloudflare outage today in less than three weeks. The last time it happened, on November 18, several AI platforms across India, including ChatGPT and Claude, were also taken down. During the latest breakdown, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT remained functional, Anthropic's Claude.AI, which depends on Cloudflare, again went down. Early reports said Cloudflare’s network problems affected both CDN delivery and critical backend systems used by digital services globally.

Cloudflare Confirms Issue, Rolls Out Fix

Cloudflare quickly acknowledged the broad disruption. Its System Status Page was updated to advise customers it was investigating issues related to the "Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs." Shortly thereafter, Cloudflare confirmed that it had implemented a fix and was monitoring the results. The company added that services depending on its Dashboard or APIs may still see intermittent failures or delayed recovery as the fix propagates.

This sudden spike in web service failures highlights how deeply the internet relies on Cloudflare's infrastructure. One glitch can create a domino effect across many unrelated industries, from fintech to entertainment to enterprise SaaS, and underlines the vulnerability of centralized cloud and CDN networks. With another Cloudflare outage today, companies are reminded again of the crucial role edge servers and DNS resolution play in global uptime.

Platforms Respond: Statements by Canva and Groww

One of the first companies to issue a public response was the Bengaluru-based investment platform Groww. In a statement posted on X, Groww confirmed that its website is "currently experiencing technical issues due to a global outage at Cloudflare." The platform later announced that services had been restored.

Likewise, Canva notified its customers that the outage was due to its “CDN provider Cloudflare.” At the height of the outage, the Canva website threw HTTP 500 Internal Server Errors, which rendered millions of its users unable to access design tools or retrieve saved work. BookMyShow also experienced brief downtime before services started to stabilize.

That is a notable timing for this outage, which comes just weeks after what Cloudflare Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Prince referred to as the company's "worst outage since 2019." A permissions error in one of Cloudflare's database systems caused widespread failures in social networks, AI platforms, and news websites across the globe.

Growing Questions About Internet Resilience

With a second major Cloudflare outage today, concern from experts and businesses over systemic internet fragility is on the rise. Where more companies are consolidating hosting, CDN, and security functions with a handful of global providers, even the most minor technical error continues to have a much greater impact. Cloudflare is still monitoring the situation, and services are progressively returning to normal. But today's disruption reinforces a hard truth-a single point of failure can momentarily shake the entire internet.