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Cloudflare Outage Cripples Sites Worldwide for Three Hours

7/2/2026

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Cloudflare experienced a global outage on Tuesday that blocked access to many customer websites.
The issue was reported at 11.48 am London time, a fix announced at 2.48 pm, and the incident declared resolved.
Cloudflare disabled its Warp encryption service in London, causing local users to experience connection failures.
A spokesperson apologized to customers and the internet, citing an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large and crashed the traffic-management software.

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Story summary

Cloudflare experienced a global outage on Tuesday that blocked access to many customer websites.
The issue was reported at 11.48 am London time, a fix announced at 2.48 pm, and the incident declared resolved.
Cloudflare disabled its Warp encryption service in London, causing local users to experience connection failures.
A spokesperson apologized to customers and the internet, citing an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large and crashed the traffic-management software.