OUTAGE ANALYSIS
Cloudflare Outage Analysis: November 18, 2025

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Explaining the AWS Outage & Other Recent Incidents
During complex infrastructure outages, an initial issue can often have a ripple effect, creating a web of problems to resolve. Explore how this phenomenon appeared to play out during the October 20 AWS outage and also unpack other recent outage events.
Explaining the AWS Outage & Other Recent Incidents
The Anatomy of a Backend Outage and Incidents at X, Claude & More
Brush up on some of the key characteristics of backend outages and explore recent service disruptions at X, Anthropic’s Claude, CommBank, Alaska Airlines, and Gong.
The Anatomy of a Backend Outage and Incidents at X, Claude & More
Insights From Recent Outages: Starlink & Google Maps SDKs
Just as a detective must gather clues and consider all the evidence, ITOps teams investigating an outage must consider all available data points in context to understand where system failures likely occurred. Recent outages that impacted Starlink and Google Maps SDKs powerfully illustrated this point.
Insights From Recent Outages: Starlink & Google Maps SDKs
Diving Into the Red Sea Cable Cuts & More Outage News
Gain insights on the Red Sea subsea cable cuts; connectivity issues in China; and other recent service disruptions at Verizon, Google, and Mailchimp.
Diving Into the Red Sea Cable Cuts & More Outage News
All Things BGP: Discovering BGP Zombies & More
Dive into the world of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)—the backbone of the Internet—and explore everything from BGP zombies to BGP monitoring best practices.
All Things BGP: Discovering BGP Zombies & More

Insights on All Things Internet and Networking

Outage Analyses

Go under the hood of recent outages to explore what happened and why, and get expert takes on lessons learned from these incidents.

Outage Trends

Get insights on the latest Internet outage numbers and trends for ISP, public cloud, and edge service networks.

Expert Insights

Join industry leaders to explore the latest trends and technologies shaping the future of the Internet.

Technical Tips

Learn practical tips from networking experts to help you take a proactive approach to assuring resilient digital experiences.

Meet the Team

Mike Hicks

Principal Solutions Analyst

Mike is a recognized expert in network and application performance, with more than 30 years of industry experience supporting large, complex networks and working closely with infrastructure vendors on application profiling and management. He is the author of "Managing Distributed Applications: Troubleshooting in a Heterogeneous Environment" (Prentice Hall 2000) and "Optimising Applications on Cisco Networks" (Cisco Press 2004).

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Angelique Medina

Head of Internet Intelligence and Director of Product Marketing

Angelique has worked in technical marketing roles related to network infrastructure and network visibility for the past ten years, most recently at ThousandEyes, where she works on multi-layer visibility spanning application, DNS, L3, and BGP. She’s particularly focused on performance monitoring for SD-WAN and cloud/SaaS adoption. In 2018, she served as the lead author of the Global DNS Performance Benchmark Report. Prior to joining ThousandEyes, she spent time working on data center networking at Big Switch Networks and visibility switching at VSS Monitoring.

Barry Collins

Host, Journalist, & Senior Contributor at Forbes

As host of The Internet Report podcast, Barry partners with the ThousandEyes Internet Intelligence team to bring you the latest insights on Internet health and outage trends. A seasoned technology journalist and current senior contributor at Forbes, he previously served as associate editor and columnist for The Sunday Times' technology section, as well as editor of PC Pro. He has also appeared on BBC News, BBC Newsnight, ITV News at Ten, and various national radio stations.

Barry Collins

Contributors

Kemal Sanjta

Principal Internet Analyst

Chris Villemez

Lead Technical Marketing Engineer

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Internet Outages Map

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Internet Outages Timeline

See this timeline for insights from recent Internet outages and tips to help you prevent downtime and respond effectively when an outage hits.

In-Depth Outage Analysis

Check out the ThousandEyes blog to keep your finger on the pulse of Internet health and notable outage events.

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Internet Outage Survival Kit

Equip your ITOps team with the tools and knowledge you need to mitigate the impacts of outages and proactively assure high-quality digital experiences.

Outage Survival Kit

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