New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary

Cloudflare’s Q1 2025 Radar report summarizes global Internet disruptions caused largely by infrastructure and environmental factors, including submarine/terrestrial cable damage (Pakistan, Syria, Georgia), widespread power failures (Angola, Sri Lanka, Chile, Honduras, Cuba, Panama), severe storms (Ireland, Réunion), and a major earthquake in Myanmar, detailing country- and network-level traffic, latency, bandwidth, and routing impacts. It also notes a Russian ISP outage attributed to a cyberattack and a brief multi-operator Russian disruption possibly tied to a failed firewall update, alongside localized disruptions in Haiti and Southern California, but observes no government-directed shutdowns this quarter.