Summary of this article
Cloudflare outage crashed Zerodha, Groww, Canva, and several other websites during market hours
Trading got disrupted temporarily; websites showed '500 Internal Server Errors'
This was the 2nd global outage within 20 days, affecting millions of users worldwide
Several trading platforms worldwide and in India were down due to issues in Cloudflare services. The internet is filled with messages of complaints due to not being able to access the websites, including Zerodha, Groww, and Canva, among others, due to a disruption in Cloudflare services. Users began complaining about the outage as soon as it started, describing it as major, with almost 50 per cent of the internet affected.
The outage affected online services in multiple regions, with website errors like '500 Internal Server Error' appearing during the outage. The timing of the outage, during market hours, also caused an interruption to time-sensitive activities such as trading until services were restored.
Cloudeflare's Message
Cloudflare posted on its website, “Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed” at 08:56 UTC on December 5, 2025.
The issue was fixed later that morning. At 09:20 UTC on December 5, the internet infrastructure provider's website clarified that it was an outage, not an attack. The website stated, “A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.”
Users' Reactions
While users expressed frustration on the social media platform, calling the outage a regular activity as ‘Outage Again?”, while some put it lightly, “The Cloud seems to have fallen over again. Time to check the outage map: AWS or Cloudflare again?”
This is the second time a global outage has happened in this quarter, leading to numerous websites, apps, and online services going down.
Upon getting complaints from users, Zerodha posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), “This issue is with Cloudflare, affecting all major Indian brokers”, clarifying Cloudflare’s issue.
Later, it posted another message as soon as the website started working, “Update: Cloudflare global outage resolved. Kite services have been restored. You can now trade normally. We regret the inconvenience caused.”
What Is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure and security provider. The company provides its services to several websites globally, and thus, a glitch in its services results in an outage and disruptions in accessing the websites it hosts.
