Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Nov. 18, and it took many major platforms down with it. OpenAI, Spotify, X, and Canva were among just some of the websites and services that went down Tuesday morning. Feel like you're experiencing deja vu? Well, you're not.

Cloudflare Inc is a US based company that provides content delivery network services, cybersecurity tools, and protection against distributed denial of service attacks, along with several other internet support services.

Did your internet break this morning? For thousands of Alabamians, the world wide web slammed shut as a massive Cloudflare outage affected websites across the internet, including X, Spotify, Google Store and some Alabama government sites.

Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince accuses Google of exploiting web content for AI training without paying publishers. He states Google's search monopoly

Google is using a dominant position that they have in search to leverage their way into AI," Matthew Prince says.

A major Cloudflare outage has disrupted global platforms including OpenAI, AWS, X, Valorant, Spotify and more, with Downdetector showing simultaneous spikes as multiple services report widespread connectivity failures.