Cloudflare Outage Shuts Down Parts of Internet

People woke up Tuesday morning to many of their websites down, thanks to a Cloudflare outage that struck early and took down parts of the Internet.

Cloudflare, a company that powers much of the internet’s infrastructure, suffered a major outage Tuesday morning that disrupted access to some of the world’s most popular websites. The problems began around 7 a.m. EST and quickly spread, leaving users unable to reach platforms like X, Spotify, ChatGPT, and several cryptocurrency exchanges.

By 8:15 a.m., the company posted an update that brought some relief. Techradar reported in their live blog of the situation that, “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” Cloudflare says on its update page.”

By 8:45, the work continued, with the company posting the following update: “Cloudflare says it is still hard at work fixing the problems, posting, “We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers.”

Meanwhile users (including this one…), who are used to going to sites like X to see what’s going sit and wait. It’s like waiting in a house for the lights to come back on after after a horrible storm has knocked out a transformer somewhere.

As of 9 a.m. the following was posted on their site : “Update – We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers…. We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London.”

This post will be updated.

Update: 9:46 a.m. EST. : Cloudflare reports: “Monitoring – A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.”