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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Other Major Sites as Partial Recovery Begins

Cloudflare attributes the disruption to an unusual 11:20 UTC traffic spike, with the cause still under investigation.

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.