Shutdowns, power outages, and conflict: a review of Q1 2026 Internet disruptions

This Cloudflare Radar quarterly overview summarizes major Internet disruptions in Q1 2026, including prolonged government-directed shutdowns in Uganda and Iran, multiple nationwide power-grid failures (notably three collapses in Cuba), submarine cable damage affecting the Republic of Congo, regionally impactful storms in Portugal, and unprecedented physical attacks (drone strikes) that damaged AWS data centers in the Middle East; the report emphasizes impacts to availability, notes observed routing and filtering behavior during shutdowns, and documents recovery timelines and operational impacts across affected networks.