Global Interruption: YouTube, X, Steam, and Cloudflare Experience Simultaneous Outages Due to Datacenter Route Failure

Around 8:00 AM on October 16, 2025, multiple major online services — including YouTube, Netflix, X/Twitter, Steam, AWS, and Cloudflare — experienced short-term outages. The simultaneous disruption of so many platforms strongly suggests a problem at the data center or network operator level.

Taking YouTube as an example: when users attempted to play videos, playback would either fail to start or stop midway. Related features, such as video recommendations, also failed to load properly, affecting both the web and mobile app versions.

Users from different regions — including the U.S. East Coast, U.S. West Coast, New Zealand, and Australia — reported similar issues, indicating a likely malfunction in Google’s U.S.-based data center routes, which in turn affected global services.

Other platforms may have experienced varying levels of disruption depending on their data center configurations and network routing strategies, but the United States appeared to be the most severely impacted region. By the time of publication, most services had begun to recover, likely after network providers identified and resolved the underlying issue.

Therefore, if you are still unable to access certain platforms or stream videos, it is advisable to wait a little longer — full restoration across all affected regions may take a few more hours.

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