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December 5: Cloudflare outages caused website disruptions

Users in various countries on December 5 reported disruptions to Cloudflare services. Due to the outage, a number of websites, including Canva and the monitoring service Downdetector, were experiencing errors or were unavailable.

Tetiana Suchkova-Ladik

By Tetiana Suchkova-Ladik

December 5, 2025 · 1 min read

December 5: Cloudflare outages caused website disruptions

Users in multiple countries reported disruptions to Cloudflare on December 5. Because of the issue, some web resources, including Canva and the monitoring service Downdetector, showed errors or failed to load.

Access issues

According to users, access to certain sites intermittently dropped, and some pages loaded with errors.

Cloudflare is one of the key providers of internet infrastructure: the company speeds up website loading and protects sites from cyberattacks. Outages in its networks can affect a large number of web resources, even if there is no direct connection between them.

Maintenance in Detroit

The company reported technical work on December 5 at the DTW data center in Detroit. Some traffic was rerouted, which could have caused increased latency and temporary unavailability of certain resources in the region.

Earlier, Cloudflare explained the cause of the November 18 outage that knocked ChatGPT, X and a number of sites in Ukraine offline. In October, Amazon Web Services gradually restored service after a global outage that disrupted popular websites and apps for several hours.

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