An outage at Cloudflare on December 5, 2025 disrupted internet services across the UAE and beyond, leaving multiple websites and content-management systems unresponsive and stalling work in many offices. The company issued an advisory around 08:56 UTC saying it was “investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs,” meaning customers relying on those services experienced failed requests and error messages.
This marks the second major disruption for Cloudflare in recent weeks, coming after a similar outage in November that affected widely used platforms including ChatGPT and X (formerly Twitter). The repeated incidents have raised renewed concern over the vulnerability of global internet infrastructure, especially given how many services depend on a single provider for traffic routing, security, and content delivery.
