A massive global Cloudflare outage has disrupted several major websites and apps on Thursday, impacting millions of users across trading, fintech, productivity, and content platforms.
According to Downdetector data, problem reports for Cloudflare spiked sharply after 1:30 PM, indicating a widespread service disruption that quickly cascaded across India and other regions.
Among the worst hit were India’s largest brokerage and trading platforms:
Zeroload (Kite)
groww
Upstox
Angel One
Users reported inability to log in, execute trades, view charts, or access portfolios. The outage comes during market hours, heightening frustration among traders.
Cloudflare powers infrastructure for some of the world’s most widely used platforms. As a result, several popular services reported downtime, including:
Several Indian websites using Cloudflare’s CDN and security layers also became temporarily inaccessible.
Cloudflare has not issued a detailed technical explanation yet, but early indicators suggest a network-level disruption involving Cloudflare’s CDN and DNS serviceswhich handle traffic routing for thousands of global platforms.
This means even platforms that were functioning normally saw failures because Cloudflare sits between users and servers.
Cloudflare’s incident page has confirmed the outage and marked it as a “major performance degradation” affecting multiple regions.
Engineers have deployed mitigations and services are gradually recovering, although intermittent issues may continue.
With NSE and BSE markets open, the outage caused delays in order placement and modification, potentially leading to losses for intraday traders.
Brokerages have begun issuing advisories, asking users to refrain from repeated attempts to log in and recommending use of alternative order execution channels if available.
This is a developing story. More updates expected soon.
