The Cloudflare incident this Friday morning is causing worldwide disruption to the web. Photo: Shutterstock

The Cloudflare incident this Friday morning is causing worldwide disruption to the web. Photo: Shutterstock

A new major Cloudflare outage is disrupting access to thousands of sites worldwide this Friday morning, the second in less than a month. An incident that is reigniting concerns about the internet’s growing dependence on a few key service providers.

Cloudflare is suffering another major outage this Friday morning paralysing access to many sites around the world. This is the second incident in less than a month for the company, a key player in securing and routing internet traffic. There’s no need to restart your router: the fault comes from the infrastructure itself.

As a reminder, according to W3Techs, around 20% of the sites listed use its infrastructure. In the world’s top 10,000, this proportion rises to almost 33%, according to Increv. This incident once again illustrates the fragility of an Internet concentrated in the hands of a few technical service providers, despite all the talk of resilience and diversification. The repeated outages highlight the difficulty for businesses of reducing their exposure to these structuring players.

At the time of publishing the article, Cloudflare states on its site that the problem has now been resolved in Luxembourg, but many countries are still affected.

According to the platform, the problem has now been resolved in Luxembourg but still affects many countries around the world. (Screenshot: Paperjam)

According to the platform, the problem has now been resolved in Luxembourg but still affects many countries around the world. (Screenshot: Paperjam)