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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Access to Major Platforms Worldwide

Cloudflare says it is fixing a fault affecting clients reliant on its network services.

Overview

  • Cloudflare acknowledged an active incident and reported work underway to restore service, without providing a detailed root cause.
  • User reports on Downdetector showed widespread problems reaching popular services including X, ChatGPT, Spotify and Amazon.
  • For X specifically, Downdetector data cited about 11,500 U.S. reports with issues split between the app (60%), website (28%) and server connections (11%).
  • Downdetector also recorded thousands of complaints tied to the disruption in several countries, including more than 8,400 in the UK, 5,400 in the US and 1,100 in Russia.
  • Independent news sites such as Dozhd, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Mediazona and Ukrainska Pravda reported that their websites were unreachable.