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Millions of users woke up to error messages and downed sites all over the internet Tuesday — including ChatGPT, Spotify and X — all due to a problem with Cloudflare. Why it matters: Much of the internet runs on just a handful of infrastructure operators,
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, one of the largest providers of internet services for websites, said just before 7:00 a.m. Eastern that it had begun investigating the issue.
Services like Cloudflare underpin much of the internet, working invisibly in the background. But when things go wrong, it can have major impacts.
The internet is down (again). A wide range of websites (including our very own gizmodo.com) were down on Tuesday morning due to an outage involving internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.
Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare.
When web services provider Cloudflare went down on Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet became unavailable.
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Cloudflare added, "Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable. We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve.
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