2026-01-09
Just before 12:00 UTC today, the amount of announced IPv6 address space in #Iran dropped by ~98.5%, concurrent with IPv6 traffic share dropping from ~12% to ~1.8%, as the govt. selectively blocks Internet access amid protests. https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... [image]
The National
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply
Cloudflare Radar says country's IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities
2025-12-16
More than half of TLS 1.3 traffic is using post-quantum (PQ) encryption, protecting it from “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks. Major growth seen in mid-September when Apple OS updates enabled default PQ support. Learn more in our 2025 Year in Review: https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... [image]
Cloudflare
Cloudflare's 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI service, Starlink traffic grew 2.3x, and more
Cloudflare :
If you're a content or Web site owner, are you blocking AI or search crawlers in your robots.txt file? See how bot blocking across the top 10,000 domains changed throughout 2025 in our new Year in Review: https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... [image]
Cloudflare
Cloudflare's 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI service, Starlink traffic grew 2.3x, and more
Cloudflare :
2025-10-21
A significant AWS outage has been declared. Cloudflare data shows a clear drop in AS14618, associated with AWS's US-East-1 region (Ashburn, Virginia) — one of AWS's largest and busiest data center regions — starting around 07:00 UTC. Traffic fell by as much as 68% at 08:00 UTC. [image]
CNBC
AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
2025-10-20
A significant AWS outage has been declared. Cloudflare data shows a clear drop in AS14618, associated with AWS's US-East-1 region (Ashburn, Virginia) — one of AWS's largest and busiest data center regions — starting around 07:00 UTC. Traffic fell by as much as 68% at 08:00 UTC. [image]
The Verge
AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.
2024-12-12
When an unknown issue caused problems accessing @Meta social media & messaging properties, the @Cloudflare @1111Resolver experienced a spike in associated DNS queries. Between 17:50 - 18:25 UTC, query volume increased by as much as 30%. [image]
BleepingComputer
Meta says it is “99% of the way” to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET
Facebook: down — Bluesky: up up up with the workers Karissa Bell / @karissabe : Quite an outage for Meta... I can't remember the last time so many of its services were down more ...
2024-04-03
The 7.4 #earthquake in #Taiwan at 7:58 local time (23:58 UTC) briefly disrupted Internet traffic, dropping it by ~5%. Within an hour, traffic surged to 5% above normal. Mobile networks were the most affected: Emome (AS17421) saw a 24% drop, Taiwan Mobile (AS24158) 19%. [image]
Bloomberg
TSMC expects to resume production overnight after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's biggest in 25 years, and says “there is no damage to our critical tools”
- Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation areas — The earthquake rocked Taiwan and triggered tsunami warnings
2024-02-28
So far, @Cloudflare data hasn't observed any clear changes in Internet traffic or latency in potentially affected areas of the region, including Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya, and Tanzania, following reports of submarine cables damage in the Red Sea.
Bloomberg
Seacom says a subsea cable was damaged in the area where Houthi fighters are targeting ships, highlighting how vulnerable critical subsea infrastructure can be
2024-02-08
Disruptions to #mobile #Internet connectivity in #Pakistan have been observed on @telenorpakistan, @Zongers, and @jazzpk starting at 0200 UTC, despite assurances from @PTAofficialpk that mobile services would remain active on Election Day, February 8. https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... [image]
Nikkei Asia
Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation
Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy — Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.