Web services company Cloudflare said it is aware of problems impacting "multiple customers" amid reports of outages at apps including X.

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

The outage, which brought down services such as X, ChatGPT, Canva, Discord and other websites and applications, was traced to a permissions update on a ClickHouse database cluster

The crypto ecosystem has made strides in decentralizing blockchains, but the recent Cloudflare incident showed that true resilience requires decentralizing the frontend and storage layers as well, blockchain infrastructure platforms argue.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that powers many popular websites, including Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and more. Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the next several hours.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.

Cloudflare said the service disruption that led to significant customer outages on November 18, 2025 was not the result of a cyberattack.

Herbatschek stresses resilience is crucial due to the fact that customers will never distinguish between a vendor’s outage and a company’s own.NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to this week’s high-profile Cloudflare outage that was triggered by a latent bug in a core service supporting its bot mitigation capability,