Cloudfare outage updates | A major disruption at Cloudflare — one of the world’s most widely used internet infrastructure companies — triggered outages affecting everything from ChatGPT and League of Legends to New Jersey Transit systems.
Just after 9:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Cloudflare announced that it had restored its dashboard services but was still working to “remediate broad application services impact.”
In an effort to stabilise systems, Cloudflare temporarily disabled some services for United Kingdom users while addressing multiple outages early Tuesday.
The company said on its status page: “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. We are continuing to work toward restoring other services.”
Multiple Global Platforms Experience Connectivity Issues
A wide range of high-traffic platforms reported problems, including:
- X (Twitter)
- Shopify
- Dropbox
- Coinbase
- Moody’s
Moody’s website showed an Error Code 500 and directed users to visit Cloudflare for more information.
What Cloudflare Does — And Why Its Outage Matters
Cloudflare, headquartered in San Francisco, provides crucial infrastructure that protects websites from cyberthreats and keeps digital services running reliably. Outages at Cloudflare can therefore ripple across the global internet.
The Cloudflare incident follows several recent major outages:
Microsoft Azure Outage (Last Month)
Microsoft deployed a fix after a configuration change caused outages across its Azure cloud portal, affecting access to Office 365, Minecraft, and other services.
Amazon Cloud Outage (October)
Amazon Web Services experienced a widespread outage in October, disrupting platforms across:
- Social media
- Gaming
- Food delivery
- Streaming
- Financial services
The issue was eventually resolved, but not before causing extensive downtime.
