From Cloudflare to AWS: The biggest tech outages of 2025 and what caused them

The year 2025 has been marked by a series of large-scale tech outages that disrupted global digital infrastructure, affecting businesses, governments, and millions of users worldwide. From cloud giants and communication platforms to critical service providers, several major systems experienced breakdowns driven by DNS failures, configuration errors, cyberattacks, and flawed updates. Here is a look at some of the biggest tech outages of 2025. (Image: AI-generated)

Cloudflare Outage: Cloudflare faced one of the year’s most significant…