A brief Cloudflare outage on Thursday disrupted multiple online services, including leading Indian trading platforms Zerodha, Angel One, and Groww. Thousands of users took to social media to report problems such as login failures, inability to place orders, and delays in accessing live market data. The disruption occurred as APIs and backend systems that rely on Cloudflare’s infrastructure faced connectivity issues across several regions.
The outage had a direct impact on real-time trading activity during market hours, causing frustration among retail traders. Several fintech apps, enterprise tools, and global websites that depend on Cloudflare for content delivery, security, and traffic management also experienced slowdowns or temporary failures.
Not the First Cloudflare Outage
This marks the second major Cloudflare incident in recent months. In the previous outage, a technical fault briefly took down major platforms including X (Twitter), ChatGPT, Letterboxd, and even Downdetector, which itself runs on Cloudflare. The event highlighted how deeply integrated Cloudflare is with the modern internet ecosystem—making any downtime capable of triggering widespread service disruption within minutes.
Cloudflare Confirms Recovery
According to Cloudflare’s official status page, all services have now been restored. The company said the latest outage lasted around 12 minutes, beginning at 08:56 UTC (2:26 pm IST) and stabilizing after a fix was deployed at 09:12 UTC (2:42 pm IST). The issue primarily affected the Dashboard and related APIs, causing request failures for some users. Cloudflare added that systems remain under close monitoring to ensure full normalcy.
As one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, Cloudflare’s recurring outages underscore the growing challenge of maintaining resilience in an increasingly interconnected digital environment.
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