Dozens of popular websites and apps, including UberEats, Bet365, Amazon Web Services and CounterStrike and Steamwent down Friday after a Cloudflare outage sparked widespread tech chaos.
The outage has affected users across the US and abroad, including in the UK.Companies that confirmed issues include Bet365, Uber Eats, AWS, Sky Bet, Steam, Wikipedia, Betfair, Uber, Sky Vegas, Microsoft 365 and PlentyOfFish.
Many gaming sites have also been affected, including Minecraft, Overwatch 2, Call of Duty and Dead by Daylight.
Dozens of popular websites and apps, including UberEats, Bet365, CounterStrike, and Steam went down Friday after an outage at Cloudflare, an IT service management company, sparked tech chaos. DowndetectorCommon workplace apps such as WorkDay and Airtable also experienced issues Friday.
An IT service management company, Cloudflare provides web security, speed and routing services for millions of websites, affecting each one that relies on it.
Its services protect website owners from comment spam attacks, DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks and peak loads.
UberEats saw more than 4,000 complaints Friday afternoon, according to Downdetector. Francois Eichinger – stock.adobe.comUberEats saw more than 4,000 complaints Friday afternoon, Downdetector reported.
“Uber Eats is down for me, I can’t cancel my order. It’s taken forever and I can’t seem to get a hold of anyone at customer support,” one user complained.
Bet365, a sports betting app that is legal in 16 US states, saw more than 5,00 complaints on Friday. ShutterstockBet365, a UK-based sports betting app that is legal in 16 US states, saw more than 5,000 complaints Friday.
“We’re aware of an issue with our Website/App, and our Technical Team are working to resolve it as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience,” the company said in a statement on X.
“Hurry up and fix this c–p so I can get back to losing money,” one user joked.
The IT giant, headquartered in San Francisco, Cloudflare confirmed the outage in a statement Friday.
“Cloudflare has identified and mitigated the underlying issue and is working to restore availability to impacted advertisements,” the statement read.
“Cloudflare is continuing to work on restoring service for impacted customers to what it was before the outage.”






