The Cloudflare outage “wasn’t an attack” but took down your favorite websites anyway

It’s happened again: one of the internet’s backbone providers, Cloudflare, has gone offline, taking swathes of important websites with it. It’s similar to the Amazon Web Services outage in October 2025 that took down what felt like half of the internet, stopping internet users from accessing Snapchat, Disney+, Venmo, and Canva, among scores of other sites.