Canva goes down with Zoom, LinkedIn, and dozens of services as major internet infrastructure crisis unfolds

Canva down alongside Zoom, LinkedIn, and dozens of other major services due to a Cloudflare outage that hit the internet on December 5, 2025. The web infrastructure provider experienced widespread disruptions early Friday morning, affecting millions of users globally. This marks another critical internet vulnerability just weeks after a similar massive incident.

What Happened with Cloudflare During December 5 Outage

A significant Cloudflare outage disrupted internet services Friday morning, causing widespread access issues across platforms relying on the content delivery network. The company reported that dashboard access and API functionalities were affected, preventing users from accessing dependent services.

Affected platforms showed 500 Internal Server Error messages as the outage cascaded across the internet. Within approximately 30 minutes, Cloudflare services began recovering, and most affected websites returned to normal functionality. The company acknowledged the incident on its status page.

Which Major Services Went Down Today

The scope of the outage was massive, impacting some of the world’s most popular platforms. Zoom experienced access issues, preventing users from joining meetings. LinkedIn displayed errors for business professionals attempting to browse or post content.

Canva, the popular graphic design platform, went completely offline. Additional services affected included Fortnite, Discord, Shopify, Substack, League of Legends, trading platforms like Zerodha and Angel One, and Claude AI chatbot by Anthropic. DownDetector itself also went down, preventing users from checking outage statuses. The full list of impacted services suggests that dozens of major websites and applications depend on Cloudflare infrastructure.

Understanding Content Delivery Networks and Internet Dependency

CDN Provider	Function	Risk Level
Cloudflare	Content delivery, security, DNS services	High concentration of traffic
Akamai	Content delivery and edge computing	Critical infrastructure
AWS CloudFront	Amazon’s content distribution service	Widespread dependency

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like Cloudflare provide crucial internet infrastructure. According to Ryan Polk, director of policy at the Internet Society, CDNs improve reliability, reduce latency, and lower transit demands. However, when too much internet traffic concentrates within a few providers, they become single points of failure that disrupt large portions of the internet.

Cloudflare alone serves millions of websites globally, making any outage affecting the provider potentially catastrophic. The December 5 incident demonstrates the vulnerability of an internet ecosystem that depends heavily on infrastructure from a handful of companies.

When Did Outages Happen and How Internet Resilience Is Being Questioned

The December 5, 2025 outage occurred between approximately 09:00 and 13:00 UTC, impacting users across all time zones during early Friday morning hours in North America. Canva confirmed on its status page that services had fully recovered following the Cloudflare outage.

This incident repeats a concerning pattern. On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a massive outage triggered by a bug in the Bot Management feature generation logic. Just one month earlier, in October 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered technical problems affecting companies connecting to AWS data services, causing worldwide disruptions.

“When too much Internet traffic is concentrated within a few providers, these networks can become single points of failure that disrupt access to large parts of the Internet.”

— Ryan Polk, Director of Policy, Internet Society

What Should Businesses and Users Learn from Yet Another Internet Crisis?

The repeated Cloudflare outages and similar incidents highlight critical questions about internet infrastructure resilience. Tech companies and enterprises must consider whether their systems have adequate redundancy and backup infrastructure independent of single CDN providers.

For individual users, these outages serve as reminders that even major, well-established platforms remain vulnerable to infrastructure failures beyond their control. The concentration of internet services among a few dominant providers represents a systemic risk that policymakers, infrastructure companies, and technology leaders continue to struggle with resolving.

Sources

• Euronews – Comprehensive coverage of Cloudflare outage impact on Zoom, Canva, Fortnite, and LinkedIn
• Forbes – Analysis of latest Cloudflare service disruption and dashboard issues
• The Economic Times – Details about affected trading platforms and global service impacts