2025's biggest internet outages and what caused them

Downdetector by Ookla has revealed the largest internet outages of 2025, based on millions of user reports worldwide. The data shows where internet services failed at scale and how outages tied to cloud platforms, gaming networks, and streaming services affected users across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.. North America was naturally the region with the highest concentration of high-impact outages. In the US and Canada, the three largest single-service incidents each passed one million user reports, showing how quickly problems were spotted when widely used platforms went offline. PlayStation Network recorded the… [Continue Reading]