When the Cloud Crashes: What Cloudflare’s 2025 Outages Teach Us About Centralization Risk
On December 5, 2025, the internet went dark for millions of users around the world. The cause was not a massive cyberattack, government shutdown, or catastrophic infrastructure failure. Instead, it was a single outage at Cloudflare, one of the largest providers of content delivery, DNS, DDoS protection, and web infrastructure services.
