Major websites such as X and ChatGPT temporarily stopped working due to an outage at Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare on Tuesday. A popular tool for checking whether a site is down, downdetector.com, has also been affected.
In a message on its status page just before noon UTC, the company said that it “is experiencing an internal service degradation,” and investigating the issue.
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Cloudflare’s servers act as “reverse proxy,” routing internet traffic through its network to protect against potential cyber-threats to its customers. It protects nearly a fifth of all sites around the world.
Major websites that use its protection have faced intermittent outages.
Last month, a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread disruptions to online services. A single outage can affect millions of users.
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Fragility of the Internet: The incident highlights how dependent the global internet is on a handful of infrastructure giants (like Cloudflare, AWS, and Azure).
one of these «backbone» providers sneezes, the rest of the internet catches a cold. A single configuration error at one company can effectively silence global communication and commerce platforms instantly.
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