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Cloudflare has successfully resolved the major global outage that occurred , which temporarily knocked out access to a massive number of websites and critical online services for several hours.

The internet infrastructure company confirmed that a fix was implemented, and core services are operating normally. The incident, which was not caused by a cyberattack but by a cascading internal configuration issue, highlights the fragility of the modern internet's reliance on a few key providers.

Impact Summary

The outage, lasting over two hours, caused widespread 500 Internal Server Errors and "Connection timed out" messages. The sheer scale of the disruption was demonstrated by the fact that even the outage tracking website, Downdetector, was briefly affected.

The wide range of platforms affected included:

• Social Media: X (formerly Twitter)
• AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
• Creative/SaaS: Canva
• Streaming/Gaming: Spotify, League of Legends

 Cloudflare's Fix and Current Status

Cloudflare's engineers identified the root cause as a latent bug in a service underpinning their bot mitigation capability that crashed after a routine configuration change.

• Resolution: Cloudflare announced that a fix was implemented and the incident was resolved around 14:42 UTC (7:12 PM IST / 9:42 AM ET), with services quickly returning to normal.
• Monitoring: The company is continuing to monitor for any residual errors to ensure full stability across its global network.

The disruption serves as the third major cloud/infrastructure outage in just over a month (following issues at AWS and Microsoft Azure), underscoring the deep global dependency on a handful of large internet service providers. Experts note these events expose the need for greater decentralization in the internet's core infrastructure.

For more details on why these outages keep happening, check out this video: Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet. This YouTube video provides context on the scale of the Cloudflare outage and why so many websites were affected.