Overview
- Cloudflare reported a spike in unusual traffic at 11:20 UTC that caused errors across its network, with the root cause still under investigation.
- The disruption affected services including X, ChatGPT, Canva, Spotify, PayPal, Uber and popular games, and even hampered outage tracker Downdetector.
- Cloudflare acknowledged widespread 500 errors and issues with its Dashboard, API and support portal, cautioning some customers may still see login or portal problems.
- Engineers implemented targeted mitigations, restoring Access and WARP and re‑enabling WARP in London before applying a broader fix, after which the company moved to monitoring.
- Regulators such as Pakistan’s PTA said they were tracking the incident, which follows recent AWS and Azure failures and has renewed concern about reliance on a few infrastructure providers.