Were you impacted by the Cloudflare outage?

TheVerge.com reported that “Cloudflare has become the latest web infrastructure giant to collapse in the span of a month, replacing entire sites, including X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, and even the outage-tracking Downdetector, with an error message for hours this morning. It’s the latest in a string of outages that Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and cofounder of the internet performance monitoring platform Catchpoint, says should be a “wake-up call” for companies.”  The November 18, 2025 article entitled “Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when” (https://www.theverge.com/news/823562/cloudflare-outage-wake-up-call-websites) included these comments:

The outage comes after issues affecting Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services occurred within just one week of each other, bringing down large chunks of the internet that rely on major providers to keep their websites running. Cloudflare similarly powers a sizable part of the internet. It keeps websites online with its content delivery network, while offering several other services, including DDoS attack protection and DNS. Last year, the company said around 20 percent of the web runs through Cloudflare’s network. It also serves 35 percent of companies on the Fortune 500 list, in addition to “millions” of other customers.

Cloudflare’s speedy performance and security record make it a popular choice for websites across the globe, but this latest outage draws attention to just how concentrated the web infrastructure industry has become. After the AWS outage took down the secure messaging app Signal, the service’s president, Meredith Whittaker, said the company didn’t have any other choice but to use a major cloud service provider to run on.

Anyone surprised?