Overview
- Cloudflare reported internal service degradation starting around 6:40 a.m. ET after a spike in unusual traffic at 11:20 UTC, causing errors across its network and affecting its dashboard and API.
- Engineers deployed changes that restored Access and WARP and re-enabled WARP in London, and Cloudflare said a broader fix is in place as teams continue to monitor recovery.
- Thousands of users reported problems reaching services including X, ChatGPT, Canva, Spotify, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, League of Legends, Moody’s, NJ Transit, PayPal and Uber.
- Outage-tracking site Downdetector logged a surge of reports—peaking near 5,000—and was itself intermittently affected because it relies on similar infrastructure.
- Cloudflare said there is no evidence of a security breach and user data remains safe, and the incident revived concerns about reliance on a few infrastructure providers after recent AWS and Azure outages, with Cloudflare shares down about 5% in premarket trading.