Cloudflare Network Outage Sends Ripples Across Major Platforms

Cloudflare faced a major outage, impacting thousands of users on platforms like X and ChatGPT. The incident, caused by a spike in unusual traffic, led to errors in Cloudflare's network. Shares of the company dropped by 5% in premarket trading, as they worked to resolve the issue.

On Tuesday, a significant network outage at Cloudflare disrupted access to major internet platforms such as X and ChatGPT. The company, responsible for managing a substantial portion of web traffic, initiated an investigation early morning and has since deployed fixes, though some users may still experience issues.

Cloudflare, whose operations help websites remain operational during traffic surges, saw its shares decline by about 5% amid the crisis. This follows similar disruptions, including last month's Amazon cloud service outage which caused widespread online disturbances.

The outage affected access to platforms like Canva and Grindr, with reports peaking at nearly 5,000 incidents before decreasing. Cloudflare attributed the problem to a surge in unusual traffic, pledging to resolve the errors swiftly. Communication from impacted parties like OpenAI remains pending.

(With inputs from agencies.)