According to Windows Report | Error-free Tech Life, a major Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025, is reportedly impacting major platforms including Fortnite, LinkedIn, and Coinbase. Cloudflare has confirmed issues on its official status page. However, Epic Games’ own Fortnite server status page claims all systems are fully operational for login, matchmaking, and modes like Reload and Blitz Royale following the recent Chapter 7, Season 1 Pacific Break update. This comes just after Epic resolved a separate, EU-specific peer-to-peer relay connection problem that began on December 3. The company is still monitoring those EU relay servers. The next Fortnite update, version 39.10, is scheduled for December 11 at 4 AM ET.
The Status Page Disconnect
Here’s the thing that’s really interesting. You’ve got Cloudflare, a critical piece of internet infrastructure, confirming problems. You’ve got downstream services like LinkedIn and Coinbase likely feeling the pain. And then you have Epic Games, basically saying, “Nope, everything’s fine over here.” So what gives? It creates this weird credibility gap. Are the Fortnite issues indirect, maybe affecting account logins via other platforms? Or is Epic’s status page just slow to update? It’s a perfect example of how modern, interconnected services make pinpointing the “source” of an outage incredibly messy for the end user.
The Persistent Reliability Question
This isn’t Cloudflare’s first rodeo. Major outages for a company that bills itself as making the internet “more secure, private, faster, and reliable” are a big deal. Every time this happens, it shakes trust. I mean, look at the reaction on social media from folks like Tom Warren and others—it’s immediate and widespread. For businesses that rely on Cloudflare, these incidents aren’t just about a few minutes of downtime. They’re about lost revenue, frustrated customers, and a nagging question about putting so many eggs in one basket. The architecture of the modern web is incredibly efficient, but it’s also fragile in these very specific, centralized ways.
Epic’s Separate Battle
Meanwhile, Epic Games is dealing with its own infrastructure headaches, totally separate from this Cloudflare event. That EU P2P relay issue they just fixed? That’s the kind of granular, region-specific problem that can plague a global game. It shows that even when the big pipes are flowing, the last-mile (or in this case, peer-to-peer) connections can still fail. It’s a constant game of whack-a-mole. They deploy a huge content update like Pacific Break, and then have to immediately pivot to fixing relay servers in Europe. It’s a reminder that running a live-service game at Fortnite’s scale is a monstrously complex operation, with layers of potential failure points both inside and outside their direct control.
