Cloudflare Down LIVE: Global Outage Resolved After Major Disruption Hits ChatGPT, X, Claude and More

Cloudflare has confirmed that it resolved a widespread outage that disrupted major platforms including X, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Spotify and multiple global services.

Cloudflare Confirms Outage Resolved

Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare suffered a major internal systems issue on Wednesday, causing global disruptions across popular platforms. Services linked to Cloudflare—including ChatGPT, Perplexity, X (formerly Twitter) and several gaming and streaming platforms—were either unavailable or slow to load.

The company first acknowledged the issue on its status page, stating:

“Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted.”

A short while later, Cloudflare confirmed that the fix had been deployed:

“A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.”

LIVE Updates

10:08 AM IST — ‘Symptom of Strained Infrastructure’

According to Emarketer analyst Jacob Bourne, outages like today’s reflect the increasing pressure on global infrastructure.

“We’re seeing outages happen more frequently, and they’re taking longer to fix. Increased AI load, streaming demand and aging capacity are pushing systems past the edge.”

09:52 AM IST — Cloudflare Apologises for ‘Unacceptable’ Outage

Cloudflare issued a public apology:

“We are sorry for the impact to our customers and to the Internet in general… any outage of our systems is unacceptable.”

09:40 AM IST — What Triggered the Outage?

Cloudflare clarified that the disruption was caused by a permissions change in one of its database systems. The error led to the generation of oversized “feature files” used in its Bot Management system.

These files were then propagated across Cloudflare’s global network, triggering widespread failures.

09:25 AM IST — No, It Was Not a Cyberattack

Cloudflare confirmed the outage was not related to malicious activity.

“The incident was not caused by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind.”

09:16 AM IST — Cloudflare Shares Fall

Following the outage, Cloudflare’s stock dropped 2.8% on Wall Street as investors reacted to the global disruption.

09:10 AM IST — Major Tech Outages in Recent Years

Some major global outages in the past decade include disruptions at:

British Airways

Alphabet

Fastly

Akamai

Meta

X Corp

CrowdStrike

08:32 AM IST — What Does Cloudflare Provide?

Cloudflare’s services include:

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

DDoS Protection

DNS Services

Firewall & Security Tools

The outage affected systems relying on these backend structures.

07:54 AM IST — Why Does “challenges.cloudflare.com” Appear?

This domain is used for human verification via Cloudflare’s “Turnstile” system. Users typically encounter errors here if an ad-blocker or privacy extension blocks verification scripts.

07:50 AM IST — What Is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure provider offering data centers, security solutions, DDoS protection, and traffic acceleration. The company says it acts as an “immune system for the internet,” blocking billions of cyber threats daily.

06:50 AM IST — Websites Affected by the Outage

Several major services experienced downtime:

X (Twitter)

Spotify

ChatGPT

Perplexity

AWS

Canva

PayPal

League of Legends

Genshin Impact

Honkai: Star Rail

Archive of Our Own

Letterboxd

Sage

Claude AI

06:34 AM IST — Cloudflare CTO Explains the Technical Glitch

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht revealed that a hidden bug in the bot mitigation subsystem was triggered after a routine configuration update, causing crashes across the network.