This fall and winter have had their share of major outages (including AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare), and December was no exception. On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a 25-minute outage that served responses with HTTP 500 errors to about 28% of HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare. Since Cloudflare handles an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second, this represents a substantial chunk of internet traffic, including LinkedIn, Zoom, and Downdetector.