Cloudflare Down? Massive Outage Disrupts Major Platforms Worldwide — Check Full List of Affected Services
A major Cloudflare outage has taken down several global platforms, including ChatGPT, X, Spotify, and Canva. Check the full list of affected services and the latest recovery timeline.
A major Cloudflare outage disrupts access to global platforms such as ChatGPT, X (Twitter), Spotify, and Canva, causing widespread downtime across the internet.
Tuesday's worldwide Cloudflare outage caused significant delays to the internet, affecting a number of widely used sites and preventing millions of people from accessing essential services. The outage created cascading failures on the internet, affecting everything from streaming services to AI systems and communication tools.
What transpired?
One of the biggest web performance and security networks in the world, Cloudflare, had a serious system failure that caused outages in several areas. Websites and applications that depend on Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN), DNS, and security services were impacted by the disruption; for some platforms, this resulted in delayed loading times, unsuccessful login attempts, and outages.
Major platforms affected
According to early user reports and outage trackers, the following services experienced issues during the Cloudflare breakdown:
ChatGPT & OpenAI services
X (formerly Twitter)
Spotify
Canva
Perplexity AI
Discord
Medium
Patreon
Udemy
NordVPN & Cloudflare WARP
Downdetector (also briefly went offline due to traffic surge)
Various news, gaming, and e-commerce sites dependent on Cloudflare DNS and CDN networks
The outages ranged from slow performance to complete inaccessibility.
Why this matters
Millions of websites worldwide rely on Cloudflare to manage their traffic. This kind of failure demonstrates how reliant on a limited number of infrastructure providers the modern internet is. The outage raises questions about the web ecosystem's resiliency because it occurs soon after a significant AWS interruption.
When will Cloudflare be operational again?
Through its status page, Cloudflare has acknowledged the problem and stated that engineers are actively attempting to restore services. While complete restoration may take some time, early reports indicate that some areas have started to partially recover.
As systems stabilise, users can still encounter sporadic problems.
