Cloudflare Outage Impacts iGaming, Payments, and Popular Online Platforms

On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced a significant service disruption, marking the fourth major outage for the company in 2025. The incident lasted approximately an hour and affected millions of users globally, including those accessing iGaming platforms, ChatGPT, X, and other widely used services.

The outage also disrupted critical APIs, including those powering Paystack, temporarily preventing operators and players from completing deposits, withdrawals, and other transactions. Services such as Zoom and Meta’s suite of apps were similarly affected, demonstrating the wide-reaching consequences of the downtime.

Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on its service status dashboard at 11:48 UTC, noting it was “aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers.” The company did not provide a specific cause or estimated time for resolution at the time. The company has assured that while the main outage has been resolved, it is actively working to fix any remaining issues affecting some users. “Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard,” the company has posted. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues.”

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This incident follows several other outages earlier this year. In March, a credential rotation error caused over an hour of downtime, resulting in full write failures and partial read failures in the R2 Gateway system. In June, a storage malfunction in the Workers KV system led to a disruption exceeding two hours, impacting additional Cloudflare services and some Google Cloud operations.