Overview
- Outage reports surged from around 6:30–7:00 a.m. local time as users across the U.S., Latin America and Europe struggled to load sites, according to Downdetector.
- The company’s status page at 11:48 UTC acknowledged an incident potentially affecting multiple customers and warned users they may encounter errors.
- People accessing impacted sites saw Internal Server Error or HTTP 500 messages, with some services briefly returning before failing again.
- Platforms reporting issues included X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, League of Legends, Spotify, Canva, Netflix and Reddit, and even monitoring tools like Downdetector had interruptions.
- No root cause has been confirmed; some outlets linked the event to scheduled maintenance, a claim Cloudflare has not verified, underscoring the risks of dependence on shared infrastructure.