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Cloudflare says it’s not to blame
Cloudflare has told us it’s not to blame for today’s issues on X, Reddit, Zoom and more.
“We are not seeing any global Cloudflare outage at the moment. The only issue we are aware of is that Zayo, a network provider, is experiencing an outage on some of its network routes,” a spokesperson told us.
“It may cause some sites that use Zayo exclusively to be unreachable, whether they use Cloudflare or not. We are seeing evidence that Zayo’s network is recovering and expect any outages to be short-lived,” they added.
So the mystery continues, but thankfully all Downdetector reports for these sites are back to baseline levels, so everything seems to be back to normal.
Back to normality…
Good news, it looks like the issues that hit X, Reddit, Zoom, and more today were just a minor outbreak — and this isn’t going to be a repeat of a major failure like the big Cloudflare incident of November 2025.
We don’t know for sure if the big spike in reported issues today was Cloudflare-related, but the cloud infrastructure giant confirmed it was looking into an issue earlier – and now says “a fix is being implemented”.
That fix seems to do the trick for many services, according to Downdetector – but I’ll continue to keep an eye on them, just in case.
William Shatner captures the mood
When in doubt, turn to William Shatner – the actor captured what many have experienced with a post on X showing the error message “post is not loading right now”.
But how did he post his reaction when X is down? Well, the site seems to be recovering from its wobble, with reports now down below 10,000 in the US, so I feel confident that normal Shatner service will resume soon.
X is still fighting for many
X seems to be on the mend, but it’s definitely not its usual self. We can currently see the Trends section but have no feed.
Reddit seems to be doing better, with reports of Downdetector now down to around 365 in the US (down from just over 3,000 half an hour ago).
These are promising signs, but hopefully they are not a false dawn – and a number of other services such as Zoom and Fortnite continues to show a significant number of reported issues.
Considering how many services are showing increases in reported issues right now, there’s a good chance it’s all related to cloud infrastructure issues.
We are currently seeing minor spikes on Downdetector for Cloudflare and AWS, although there is no official confirmation that either is experiencing major issues.
However, Cloudflare is now experiencing “increased error rates” from 10.20 ET / 15.20 BST, so that could be a potential cause, as the likes of X and Reddit are known to use it for their cloud-based content delivery.
A series of large spikes
Right now, X seems to be the worst affected by today’s issues, with nearly 36,000 reports of Downdetector. But Reddit is also apparently struggling for many in the US with over 3,000 reports.
This could very well be an outage or cloud infrastructure issue, as we’re seeing several minor spikes across a range of services, from Zoom to Fortnite and Canva. Is this related to a Cloudflare or AWS service? It’s not clear yet, but we’ll find out soon.
