The American information technology and cybersecurity company “Cloudflare” experienced a major outage since Tuesday morning; which affected many websites and applications around the world, including Moroccan news sites and platforms.
According to what Hespress newspaper observed on the company’s official website, Cloudflare acknowledged this interruption, stressing that it “is aware of an ongoing problem that may affect many customers, and that it has begun investigating it,” highlighting in continuous messages in fragmented phrases published by the same source that “more details will be provided when more information becomes available.”
Hamza Al-Tarbawi, a journalist and researcher in technical and information systems, noted that the malfunction affected many Moroccan websites, indicating that the list of other affected platforms remains “long”.
According to Hespress's monitoring of several international media outlets, the outage affected essential services for citizens and institutions, disrupting the X platform (formerly Twitter), Feedly, Marmiton, and Doctissimo. Many internet users reported loading errors, inaccessibility of numerous pages, and significant slowdowns in performance, although the exact cause of the outage remains unknown.
According to numerous sources, the American company currently occupies a unique position, with its security services used by nearly 20 percent of the internet. The outage also affected prominent global AI platforms such as DeepSeek, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Cloud AI, and numerous news websites, all of which rely, directly or indirectly, on Cloudflare's infrastructure.
International media outlets reported that Facebook, AWS (Amazon Web Services), bet365, Canva, Spotify, BrightHR, Decathlon, and even League of Legends all experienced outages. Downdetector, a website typically used to track internet outages in real time, also crashed, further indicating the extent of the disruption caused by the Cloudflare service disruption.
Many comments and posts mentioned “signs of a gradual recovery in some areas”; however, estimates highlight that “the problem is structural at the moment. Therefore, there is a continued unstable situation in browsing many websites and applications at the moment, especially in the Moroccan context where all Moroccan platforms are considered to be temporarily out of service.”
