Cloudflare Outage Hits Indian Brokers — Trading and Internet Surfing Ground to a Halt

Moneylife Digital Team 05 December 2025

Investor Interest

On Friday, a global outage at Cloudflare — a key Internet infrastructure and security services provider — left users worldwide scrambling as dozens of major websites went offline temporarily. The disruption hit India hard: popular stock-broking and trading platforms such as Zerodha, Groww, Angel One and other brokerage portals were reportedly inaccessible during peak market hours.

Many users faced login failures, order-placement errors and general unavailability of services — forcing some to abandon trades and others to wait until Cloudflare services stabilised.

Brokerage firm Zerodha's trading app Kite suffered a technical glitch on Friday. In a post on X, it says, "Due to a cross-platform downtime on Cloudflare, Kite is currently unavailable. Please use the Kite WhatsApp backup to manage your trades while we investigate."

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— Zerodha (@zerodhaonline) December 5, 2025

Groww, another stockbroker, also reported issues due to the outage at Cloudflare. In a post in X, it says, "We are currently experiencing technical issues due to a global outage at Cloudflare. This is impacting multiple apps and services worldwide. We are monitoring the situation closely and will update you the moment services are restored."

We are currently experiencing technical issues due to a global outage at Cloudflare. This is impacting multiple apps and services worldwide.

We are monitoring the situation closely and will update you the moment services are restored. Thank you for your patience.
— Groww (@_groww) December 5, 2025

Apart from the trading websites, the outage disrupted a number of widely used services globally, including platforms like Canva, LinkedIn, Spotify and even outage-tracking sites like Downdetector— leaving users unsure whether they were facing local issues or a major global breakdown.

According to multiple reports, this is Cloudflare’s second major disruption in under a month — after the outage on 18 November 2025, which affected services like ChatGPT, X (formerly Twitter), Discord and others.

Separately, Cloudflare admitted that there is some issues with its Dashboard and related APIs. In a message on cloudflarestatus.com, it says, "Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed."

The repeated failures, however, have sparked fresh concerns over the vulnerability of internet infrastructure and the risks faced by users and businesses that depend heavily on a few global providers.

For Indian retail investors and traders, the outage was more than a nuisance — it was a sharp wake-up call about just how fragile their online trading setup can be. Platforms down at crucial trading hours can cost heavily in opportunity, profits and trust.

As services return to normal, affected users and platforms alike are demanding clearer communication, robust backups and better resilience — because when the web infrastructure goes down, transactions, livelihoods and trust go down with it.

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