Cloudflare outage shuts out users on CDCare, Paystack API, Zoom, and X for the fourth time this year

Cloudflare suffered yet another outage on Tuesday, marking its fourth major downtime incident in 2025. The disruption, which affected popular platforms such as Paystack API, X, Zoom, and Meta’s services, including Facebook, lasted for about an hour and left millions of users unable to connect.

The connectivity cloud company confirmed the issue on its service status dashboard at 11:48 UTC, noting that it was “aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.” Cloudflare added that more details would be shared as the investigation continued, but did not provide any indication of the cause or a timeline for a fix.

This latest incident adds to a growing list of outages Cloudflare has experienced this year.
On March 21, 2025, a global outage lasting just over an hour was caused by a credential rotation error that led to complete write failures and partial read failures in its R2 Gateway system.
On June 12, 2025, the company suffered a widespread disruption of more than two hours due to a storage failure in its Workers KV system. The issue cascaded into other services and even affected parts of Google Cloud.
On July 14, 2025, a DNS configuration error triggered a 62-minute global outage, disrupting users of Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver and leading to intermittent degradation in Gateway DNS services.

Cloudflare provides core internet infrastructure used by thousands of companies, helping to keep websites online and protect them from cyberattacks. Because of this, outages on its network often have ripple effects across the wider internet.

Even outage-tracking site Down Detector was briefly affected by the disruption, making it difficult for users to monitor the incident. When accessible, the platform showed a sharp spike in error reports. Many users saw messages indicating an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network” and were asked to try again later.

The incident mirrors the widespread disruption seen last month when Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage that knocked several online services offline. Cloudflare says it is continuing to investigate the cause of today’s failure.