Overview
- Cloudflare reported widespread 500 errors and an internal service degradation that also impaired its Dashboard, API and support portal access.
- Engineers deployed fixes that restored Access and WARP in places, re‑enabled WARP in London, and warned customers could still see elevated error rates during remediation.
- Thousands of users struggled to reach platforms including X, ChatGPT, Canva, Spotify and popular games, and even Downdetector was briefly affected as outage reports surged.
- The company said there is no evidence of a security breach and indicated user data remains safe, with further updates promised on its status site.
- Cloudflare shares fell in early trading as the incident echoed recent AWS and Azure failures that have renewed scrutiny of reliance on a few internet infrastructure providers.