3-Hour Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out AI Chatbots, Shopify

On Nov. 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a major outage lasting several hours that disrupted access to numerous popular websites and online services worldwide. This was only the latest in a wave of major Internet service providers going down. Others have included Amazon Web Services and Azure, both in October. It’s becoming painfully clear that we rely all too much on a handful of cloud and network services companies.

However, there’s no single flaw here. In AWS‘s case, it was ultimately — yes, you know this story — a Domain Name…