Cloudflare outage leaves Bet365 and dozens of sites briefly offline

Cloudflare acknowledged service issues on Friday that disrupted access to a range of popular sites, with users experiencing problems on services including Uber Eats and bet365. The company issued an update at 2: 45pm Eastern Time saying it was working to restore service, and public outage reports began to decline after an afternoon peak.

Bet365 and Uber Eats disrupted

Users experienced trouble reaching ordering and betting services on Friday afternoon, with outages affecting Uber Eats and the sports betting site Bet365. Some customers also reported problems using the Steam PC gaming service. The interruptions briefly prevented normal access for people trying to use those platforms.

Timeline and measured impact

Cloudflare acknowledged that its services were experiencing issues and later posted an update at 2: 45pm ET that it was continuing to work on restoring service to impacted customers. Public outage tracking showed reports peaking around 2pm ET and then falling shortly after. On the same day, the company noted it had been performing scheduled maintenance at a Portland data center earlier, though it was unclear whether that activity contributed to the outage.

Comparisons with prior incidents show the disruption was smaller in scale than a previous outage in November, when public reports peaked at about 11, 000. Friday’s peak was under 500 on public tracking, indicating a far more limited impact on internet users overall. As of 3: 30pm ET, the company had not posted updates about the Friday incident on its help account that referenced the earlier, larger outages.

Restoration and what to watch

Observable indicators point toward partial recovery: the company’s 2: 45pm ET update and the decline in public outage reports suggest restoration was already underway by mid-afternoon. If outage reports remain low for the next monitoring period, most affected services are likely to return to normal access. If maintenance at the Portland data center continued or new errors reappeared, disruptions could extend; that outcome would be visible in renewed spikes in public outage reporting and further updates from the provider.

• Public outage reports peaked around 2pm ET and fell afterward.
• Friday’s peak was under 500 reports, versus about 11, 000 during November’s larger outage.
• The provider posted a restoration update at 2: 45pm ET; a decision about any maintenance contribution remained unclear.

Editors will watch subsequent status updates and public reporting levels for confirmation that services including bet365 and food-delivery platforms have fully recovered.