Overview
- Cloudflare logged more than 180 significant disruptions in 2025, with Q4 dominated by cable damage, power failures and routine operational faults.
- Undersea and international fiber issues drove major losses, including Digicel outages in Haiti, PEACE cable damage affecting Pakistan, and WACS faults cutting connectivity in Cameroon.
- Electricity problems triggered country‑scale slowdowns and blackouts, from the Dominican Republic’s nationwide outage to a Kenya–Uganda grid fault that depressed traffic for hours.
- Severe weather and war reduced traffic in multiple regions, with Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica, Cyclone Senyar disrupting Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and Russian strikes cutting Odesa connectivity by up to 57%.
- Provider missteps compounded the toll, including Vodafone UK going offline, a Fastweb DNS failure that slashed traffic by over 75%, two Cloudflare incidents, and regional issues at AWS and Azure; Cloudflare also introduced a Radar Cloud Observatory to track cloud availability.