Overview
- Cloudflare said it identified the cause of a widespread incident, implemented a correction and is monitoring systems after elevated error rates.
- Many high-profile services were temporarily unreachable, with reports citing X, ChatGPT/OpenAI, PayPal, Ikea, Discord, Truth Social and gaming platforms.
- Users and customers saw 500 errors, and Cloudflare’s dashboard, API and support portal experienced issues during the disruption.
- As part of remediation, Cloudflare temporarily disabled WARP access in London, interrupting connections for users in that region.
- Business outlets reported the company’s shares fell more than five percent in U.S. pre-market trading during the outage, which followed a recent AWS incident spotlighting concentration risk.