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Cloudflare Outage Briefly Disrupts Major Sites Worldwide After Configuration Error

Cloudflare blamed a latent error triggered by a routine configuration change, not an attack.

Overview

  • User reports spiked around 8:30 a.m. Brasília time, with Downdetector logging thousands of complaints tied to Cloudflare and affected platforms.
  • Services including X, ChatGPT, Amazon, Spotify, Canva and games like League of Legends experienced errors or became inaccessible in multiple countries.
  • Cloudflare said it identified the fault, enabled recovery for Access and Warp, and by around midday reported the main incident resolved with some lingering effects.
  • Chief technologist Dane Knecht said the disruption stemmed from a latent error activated by a routine change that degraded the network’s performance.
  • The episode follows recent AWS and Microsoft Azure outages, renewing expert warnings about dependence on a few infrastructure providers and calls for multi-provider redundancy.