Cloudflare Network Failure Triggers Service Interruptions Worldwide, Including Pakistan
A major outage at global internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare caused widespread disruptions across multiple online platforms on Tuesday, leaving users around the world — including in Pakistan — struggling to access their favorite services.
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Cloudflare, a backbone of the modern internet that powers countless websites through its CDN and DNS systems, began experiencing issues across its global network late in the afternoon. At 5:03 pm, the company confirmed it was investigating “widespread 500 errors” that were affecting its dashboard, API and other core services. Just 18 minutes later, Cloudflare reported that some systems were beginning to recover, but warned that users might continue to face higher-than-usual error rates as engineers worked to stabilize the network.
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Independent monitoring group NetBlocks verified that the outage was causing problems across several online services worldwide, stressing that these disruptions were not due to government-level filtering or internet shutdowns. In Pakistan, Downdetector recorded a sharp spike in outage reports around 4:10 pm, with users also reporting difficulties accessing platforms such as OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, and Facebook.
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One of the most widely affected platforms was X (formerly Twitter), which saw over 11,500 outage reports in the US and other regions. It remains unclear whether X’s issues were directly linked to Cloudflare’s failure, but the timing raised eyebrows. Even Downdetector itself — which tracks outages — struggled during the incident due to the network instability.
Cloudflare’s status page confirmed ongoing assessments and partial restoration efforts. The company said more updates would follow as its teams worked to fully resolve the disruption and bring global internet traffic back to normal.
