Cloudflare1d ago
Shutdowns, power outages, and conflict: a review of Q1 2026 Internet disruptions
Here's a 3-sentence summary of key technical decisions, problems solved, and outcomes from the blog post: During Q1 2026, government-directed shutdowns caused prolonged Internet blackouts in Uganda and Iran, with Iran remaining offline for a large part of the quarter. Cloudflare's Radar social media posts and traffic graphs observed a near-complete loss of traffic from Iran, suggesting the shutdown was implemented by filtering, with "whitelists" and "white SIM cards" restricting access to approved Internet sites. Cloudflare also tracked disruptions caused by power outages, military action, and physical damage to hyperscaler cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East.
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